Ron Bailey > Ron's Quotes

“There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.”
― Joseph Pulitzer

“It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.”
― David Weber, Field of Dishonor

“Oh, bother!,” said Pooh, as Piglet came back from the dead.”
― David Weber

“Tisiphone stood silent and helpless in Alicia's mind. It was all she could do to keep Alicia's blind savagery from dragging Megaira under and clouding the lightning-fast reflexes which kept them both alive.
She'd never guessed what she was creating, never imagined the monster she'd spawned. She'd seen the power of Alicia DeVries's mind without recognizing the controls which kept that power in check, and only now had she begun to understand fully what she had done.
She had shattered those controls. The compassion and mercy she'd feared no longer existed, only the red, ravening hunger. Yet terrible as that might be, there was worse. She'd found the hole Alicia had gnawed through the wall about her inner rage, and she couldn't close it. Somehow, without even realizing it was possible, Alicia had reached beyond herself. She'd followed Tisiphone's connection to the Fury's own rage, her own destruction, and made that incalculable power hers as well.
For the first time in millennia, Tisiphone faced another as powerful as herself, a mortal mind which had stolen the power of the Furies themselves, and that power had driven it mad.”
― David Weber, In Fury Born (1)

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“She was not a slowpoke grownup. She was a girl who could not wait. Life was so interesting she had to find out what happened next.”
― Beverly Cleary, Ramona the Pest

“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Sojourn

“Sane is boring.”
― R. A. Salvatore

“No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.”
― R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

“...which, of course, is how I developed my love for both Kabuki theater and marshmallow Peeps.”
― Jimmy Gownley, Amelia Rules! Volume 6: True Things Adults Don't Want Kids to Know

“Ah, man, when Wolverine grows his face back, he's really gonna be pretty upset.”
― Brian Michael Bendis, The New Avengers, Vol. 2: The Sentry

“Please don't be dead. Because then I'd have to be the Sorcerer Supreme and there's no way I could rock the 'stache.”
― Brian Michael Bendis, The New Avengers, Vol. 3

“I know this because the worst has happened. The thing I can’t live with… has happened. And for all our back and forth— and all the things we’ve said and done to each other… there’s one thing that I’ll never be able to tell anyone now… The one thing! The one thing I should have told you. But now I can’t… It wasn't worth it.”
― Brian Michael Bendis

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
― Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney

“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call “out there.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“Strength grows from building other strength, not from trampling on weakness.”
― Eric Flint

“Conspiracies existed, to be sure; many of them, and many were dark indeed. But fiendish? Fiendishness required brains. Nine times out of ten, conspirators behaved like buffoons and wound up exposing themselves out of sheer, bumbling incompetence.”
― Eric Flint, 1636: The Saxon Uprising

“Good writing just isn't that common.”
― Eric Flint

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“The helpful thought for which you look
Is written somewhere in a book.”
― Edward Gorey

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I know of a cure for everything: salt water...in one way or the other. Sweat, or tears, or the salt sea.”
― Karen Blixen

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.”
― August Wilson

“The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us

“drama is a good book”
― Raina Telgemeier, Drama

“One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time...give it, give it all, give it now.”
― Annie Dillard