Scott Marlowe > Scott's Quotes

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
― William Arthur Ward

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.”
― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”
― Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

“There are two kinds of folks who sit around thinking about how to kill people: psychopaths and mystery writers.”
― Richard Castle

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

“I should attempt to treat human vice and folly geometrically... the passions of hatred, anger, envy, and so on, considered in themselves, follow from the necessity and efficacy of nature... I shall, therefore, treat the nature and strength of the emotion in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes, and solids.”
― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

“Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
― Mark Twain

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“In the composite form, the subject maintains a steady pattern away from the coupling, merging into the assembly and turning to face a secondary engagement.”
― Scott Marlowe, The Nullification Engine

“Sometimes it was about the journey and not the destination.”
― Scott Marlowe, The Nullification Engine

“Persimmius. He is your man. You can find him in the old temple district, close to Shat Swamp.”
― Scott Marlowe, The Nullification Engine

“Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandaled feet.”
― Robert E. Howard, The Complete Chronicles of Conan

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

“A lie is like a pet- you have to take care of it, or it'll turn on you and bite you in the ass.”
― Matthew Stover, Heroes Die

“Opposites attract, but similarities bind.”
― Matthew Woodring Stover, Heroes Die

“Some are blessed enough to rely on gifts, but for the rest of us, well, that’s why the devils gave us steel.” “The”
― Alex Marshall, A Crown for Cold Silver

“Devildamned right.”
― Alex Marshall, A Crown for Cold Silver

“Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning. ”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“I have been made to protect you. Only in death will I be kept from this oath.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“People will eat cheeseburgers, but very few people will eat crap. Don’t serve up crap.”
― John Scalzi, Don't Live for Your Obituary: Advice, Commentary and Personal Observations on Writing, 2008-2017

“The founders of Freemasonry—whoever they were—were certainly aware of the history of the Templars, and they were clearly inspired by Templar ideals: devotion to God, a focus on the temple in Jerusalem, dedication and discipline. These founders also remembered the lessons of Templar history: the dangers of both absolute monarchy and the union of church and state.”
― Mark E. Kolko-Rivera, Freemasonry: An Introduction

“My parents had been dead for years now, ever since the Cold Fever, and it still wasn’t okay and it would never be okay, but I guess that’s just how it goes. These are heavy things for a fourteen-year-old baker to have to think.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking

“Rat’s Elbow wasn’t really all that bad, but it had a number of offshoots, and most of those led into the Rat’s Nest, which really is all that bad. Beer is cheap and blood is cheaper in there, or so they say.”
― T. Kingfisher, A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking