Matthew Ledrew > Matthew's Quotes

“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

“All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays

“My full name used to be weird enough that nobody would ever call me it. Then that show had to become popular. Damn that show. It ruined a horrible name.”
― Larry Gent, To Money and a TV

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
― Plato, Phaedrus

“When in doubt, watch Die Hard.”
― Larry Gent, To Money and a TV

“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Naydir held his breath as he watched the person who had once been his friend move forward into the crowd. He wanted to run up to her and demand to know which side she was on, but he was rooted to the ground by fear. In a few seconds she would announce who had won the war and who had lost. Naydir prayed that he was on the winning side.”
― Ali House, The Six Elemental

“I may have been too casual about explaining this before, but to say the mission would be ‘risky’ is sort of like saying this book is ‘poorly written’. It’s an accurate appraisal, but it doesn’t really capture the agony of enduring it.”
― Kenneth Tam, Sins of Mars: The Epsilon Incident

“the real world is never particularly tidy when it reaches yours hands. Just work with what you’ve got, and make it a little bit better than you found it.”
― Kenneth Tam, Sins of Mars: The Epsilon Incident

“Basic tactics: you use your EM Canons (that’s the stupid term Martians use for mags)”
― Kenneth Tam, Sins of Mars: The Epsilon Incident