Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“One good test is worth a thousand expert opinions.”
― Wernher Von Braun

“The best is the enemy of good.”
― Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis

“There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.”
― Emile Zola

“Half of an Assassin is just an Ass.”
― Eve Forward, Villains by Necessity

“You are one of the unfortunate ones whose body decays rapidly in the face of radiation poisoning. You hang your head over the toilet to vomit again and again, and die praying to the porcelain gods.”
― A.J. Lauer, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“Goodness, a girl steps out of the office for a couple days and the whole world ends!”
― A.J. Lauer, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“Zandy Brandy scented lotion - like the Normans, drunk and with soft hands!”
― A.J. Lauer, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“You stumble upon an unhappy Martian sentry on a mission and shoot ineffectually at his powersuit a few times before he pulps you with his laserbeam eyes and hideous poisonous-gas breath. Glory!”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system.”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“The front edge of the shockwave impacts the earth and you’re both shoved to your backs against the crumbling asphalt of the parking lot, and then crushed into oblivion as the Earth, along with every celestial body of your solar system, is disintegrated into tiny shards and then sucked unceremoniously into the resulting black hole.”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“They really need to cite their sources, you think to yourself, which would make your seventh-grade science teacher proud if only he knew.

It’s a moot point, however.”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“As the horde of ancient and mythical creatures impossibly descends upon you and dragonfire envelopes the land, you are forced to concede that it’s probably the very coolest way that you could die.”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN A MIX OF TRIUMPHS AND TOILS, CHALLENGES AND TESTS, AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND WORTHY. YOUR FAITH IN ME AND YOUR LOVING HEART ARE A TESTAMENT TO MY PEOPLE.

'Thank you, my God.'

COME, BE WITH ME. SIT WITH ME AT MY TABLE; JOIN ME IN RAPTURE. AND BRING YOUR CUTE FRIEND TOO.”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“Oh, one more thing,' Thor calls out. 'If I know my prophecy, and I do, you beautiful ladies had best start looking for a boat!”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“Sorry, there’s just not enough mead to go around.”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“You cast a desperate look at Eric, who has not yet noticed that you’ve been bitten. Will I turn now? Am I becoming one of them? When Ghandi said, 'Be the change you want to see in the world,' I don’t think this is how he meant it.”
― A.J. Lauer, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“You dial another college friend, Dr. Saunders, and she picks up almost immediately, 'Hi! Got a shitstorm here, what’s up?”
― A.J. Lauer, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“Your eyes meet and you immediately feel yourself shriveling under his gaze. He bears a scale in one hand and appears to be weighing your worth. Finding you wanting, the Horseman of Famine turns his dark steed and trots on.”
― Daniel Keidl, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“It doesn’t take long to realize you’ve made the wrong decision. You bump along with your eco-fueled ego in your eco-fueled vehicle and reuse every piece of plastic and glass you encounter, but it isn’t enough.”
― A.J. Lauer, Armageddon: Pick Your Plot

“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
― William Butler Yeats

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis