Darrell Nelson > Darrell's Quotes

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”
― Mark Batterson, Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“What do you read for pleasure?
Kama Sutra.”
― Jonathan Dunne, The Nobody Show

“Dare to be naïve.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller

“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft