Benjamin Ethridge > Benjamin's Quotes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“You can tell there's an election coming soon. People are already using the word "fundamentally" in excess.”
― Benjamin Kane Ethridge

“The difference between Opinion and News is the adjectives used.”
― Benjamin Kane Ethridge

“There are two ways to react to criticism and the wrong one is to be offended.”
― Benjamin Kane Ethridge

“Some are taxed on their success, true. Some are taxed on their survival, also true.”
― Benjamin Kane Ethridge

“Despair filled his skull even more tightly than his own brain. All around him cars filled with normal people perfectly unaware of the disease turning Perry's body inside out. Fucking normal people.”
― Scott Sigler, Infected

“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
― Alan Dean Foster

“I cursed. (S-word, f-word, s-word, d-word, s-word times three, f-word, and a z-word I made up on the spot.)
I kicked a brick wall.
I said the z-word again in response to the pain that came from kicking a brick wall.”
― Jeff Strand, A Bad Day for Voodoo

“Accepting a religion, any, is a lot like someone in love. It doesn't matter what the beloved does or says, he or she will get a pass... Forever. It's easier that way. It's too difficult to accept fault or to admit contradictions or falsehoods. Someone who is religious is in love, and there is no talking them out of it, regardless of what others would take as silly notions or irrational thinking. I no longer try. Life is brief, despite what those longing for an afterlife might really need to believe. Peace and acceptance is something, however, I'll always back, no matter what vehicle it rides in on.”
― Benjamin Kane Ethridge

“Many of my readers are women and some of them email me their thoughts about the stories I’ve written. Almost all of them find a delicious pleasure in being totally frightened by the strange and dark side of life. Perhaps it’s because horror books are an escape from our sometimes-mundane lives? Or could it be that many of us actually do have a private darker side that we like to explore secretly through books, movies and music?”
― Sara Brooke

“In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men’s acts, even the terrible became banal.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed