Edward Kessler Quotes

Sometimes life is fantastical, and other times you have to find fantastic inside of the boring parts and yes, even the pain. ~ Marilyn Grey

Where is there virtue in this world that is of any practical good whose vital force is not to be found in example rather than in precept? ~ Edward Hooker Dewey

Man is too quick at forming conclusions. ~ Edward E. Barnard

Screenplays aren't written to be read, they're written to be made into movies. ~ Edward Norton

The world may think it idiotic,
Nor care at all we're symbiotic,
But I will say at once and twice:
I find it nice. I find it nice. ~ Edward Gorey

I took what I knew to the public, so what affects all of us can be discussed by all of us in the light of day, and I asked the world for justice. ~ Edward Snowden

I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. ~ Edward Abbey

Change flows organically from the students themselves. ~ David Edward Goldberg

For an hour we talked of Anne and that famous farm on Prince Edward Island. Thus the friendship began. ~ Kathy Reichs

She was beautiful chaos in his well-ordered world. ~ Lisa Kessler

Propaganda will never die out. Intelligent men must realize that propaganda is the modern instrument by which they can fight for productive ends and help to bring order out of chaos. ~ Edward Bernays

My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is. ~ Edward Dyer

People afterward told him that it had taken courage to say what he thought. Not at all, he responded; it takes courage in the Soviet Union or in South Africa to say what one thinks, not in the United States. ~ Edward Shils

There is no room in research for morals. Morals cloud judgement. Morals taint conclusions. Morals define unwanted prejudices. They are not welcome in any lab of mine. ~ Edward Martin III

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust. ~ Edward Abbey

You can overcome whatever is going on around you if you believe in the light that lives within you. ~ Justine Edward

I had furthermore spoken on the assumption that Russia would mobilize, whereas the assumption of the German Government had hitherto been, officially, that Serbia would receive no support; and what I had said must influence the German Government to take the matter seriously. ~ Edward Grey

You have that one basic string, but it can vibrate in many ways. But we're trying to get a lot of particles because experimental physicists have discovered a lot of particles. ~ Edward Witten

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it. ~ Edward Abbey

Socialists do not merely want a welfare state, they absolutely must have one. They must have a grovelling dependent class from which to obtain their daily opiate: an hallucinogenic euphoria which comes from the delusion of being superior to and more altruistic than all others. They must have 'the poor, huddled masses' in much the same manner as vampires must have the blood of their victims. ~ Edward Britton

... the director explained to him, in that slow, simplified, style of language that one uses for the intellectually underprivileged, ~ Gary Edward Gedall

He crossed his arms over his chest, "I don't get why you push everyone away."

"This isn't the time to talk about this."

"Should I set up an office visit? ~ Lisa Kessler

Abject fear of pagan gods is little different from abject worship of them. ~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars, points of light and reason ... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason, for anything. ~ Stephenie Meyer

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labour of an industrious and ingenious people was variously, but incessantly employed, in the service of the rich. In their dress, their table, their houses, and their furniture, the favourites of fortune united every refinement of conveniency, of elegance, and of splendour, whatever could soothe their pride or gratify their sensuality. ~ Edward Gibbon

The Reformation may have resulted in a "Protestant work ethic," but this was not due to the pressure to prove one's election by worldly success, as certain social scientists ludicrously maintain. Rather, the work ethic emerged out of an understanding of the meaning of work and the satisfaction and fulfillment that come from ordinary human labor when seen through the light of the doctrine of vocation. ~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.

. . . I just don't think humanity is the ultimate end. We're so smug about ourselves, secure about how much we know. Well, I've lived with cats most of my life, so I'm very aware that there's another world going on. . . . it sees everything differently, hears everything differently, and probably thinks differently. ~ Edward Gorey

What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie. ~ Edward Abbey

I first considered writing 'New York' in 1991. I'd been in the city for a decade, was married to an American wife, and sending my children to New York schools. I was even on the board of a coop building. But I wasn't sure how to organize such complex material, and for many years I put the project aside. ~ Edward Rutherfurd

The old masters said if you met another Buddha on the road, you should kill him. All reality is an illusion: if you think you've found the incarnation of enlightenment, destroy that illusion on the spot. But the real world is real. Therefore, if you meet a bandit on the road, you should kill him. Anyone who seeks to make a bad world worse is a monster and an alien. ~ Edward W. Robertson

When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort of heavy infrastructure, critical infrastructure areas. And they could be hit, as long as they're network connected, as long as they have some kind of systems that interact with them that could be manipulated from internet connection. ~ Edward Snowden

A good design is not a democratic consensus. ~ Edward De Bono

Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work. ~ Edward M. Lerner

ONLY TODAY

Yesterday
can no longer
be touched.
Tomorrow
is out of your reach.

So live today,
only today. ~ Edward Lee

The Suicide, as she is falling,
Illuminated by the moon,
Regrets her act, and finds appalling
The thought she will be dead so soon. ~ Edward Gorey

I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone who is too afraid of saying what I feel. I just don't see any reason to. ~ Edward Allen Bernero

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process
it is, after all, black magic. ~ Edward Albee

I've been in the director's chair for 'Battlestar Galactica' since its first season. I directed the only comedy that's ever been done in Galactica history. ~ Edward James Olmos

been lowered slightly because ~ Edward Young

A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre. ~ George Edward Woodberry

What is right is not always the same as what is legal ~ Edward Snowden

There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. ~ Edward Abbey

We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies. ~ Val Edward Simone

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced. ~ Edward De Bono

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture. ~ Edward T. Hall