Michael Pryor Quotes

This first part may be a little rough.' He waved a hand and did his best to appear as if he'd had enormous experience with levitating buildings. ~ Michael Pryor

This was war: a vast machine that chewed up people. ~ Michael Pryor

Aubrey Fitzwilliam hated being dead. It made things much harder than they needed to be. ~ Michael Pryor

Caroline rose. She studied him for a moment before sitting on his knee.
He wasn't quite sure exactly how it happened. If pressed, he would have asked for three or four hundred pages to write a description of the series of impossibly graceful bendings and movements that ended with her perched there with one hand on his shoulder. He didn't understand - and he was sure that it defied physics - how Caroline could be so light on that tiny patch of his legs, and yet so weighty in the way her presence affected him. Her gaze, for instance, probably clocked in at about fifty or sixty tons, to judge from the effect it was having on him.
He never wanted to move. Never, ever, ever. Let the heat death of the universe come along and he'd be quite happy to still have Caroline Hepworth sitting just like that, on his knee, looking at him without speaking. The tiny light of the shaded lantern was irrelevant. He saw everything, as if it were the brightest of middays.
It was so perfect, so hoped for, that Aubrey knew it couldn't last. He glanced around.
'What are you doing?' Caroline asked very, very softly.
'Looking for whoever is going to interrupt us.'
'That's a pessimistic outlook.'
'Wars, especially, have a habit of ignoring the lives of people.'
'If you follow that through, it suggests living for the moment is best.'
'Live without planning? Without dreams? That sounds rather limited.'
'And that sounds rather like Aubrey. ~ Michael Pryor

Is it safe?" Evadne asked.
"In the heart of the lair of prehistoric people who eat humans? Probably not." Pg 197 ~ Michael Pryor

I always look on imagination as one of the most powerful things we can cultivate in young people. If they have a good, active imagination, they can cope with life better; they are ... able to imagine possibilities and to think around problems. ~ Michael Pryor

Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination. ~ Michael Pryor

An ally in time of need is worth more than gold.
(Lady Rose quoting Scholar Tan) ~ Michael Pryor

I can be a little prickly when people make assumptions about women. ~ Michael Pryor

Aubrey Fitzwilliam knew that crisis was another word for opportunity. ~ Michael Pryor

People who have outrageous skills and abilities are the gold nuggets in the river bed of human history. ~ Michael Pryor

There are art forms we don't know about yet that will be enabled by technology we haven't invented yet. ~ Michael Pryor

The quickest way to create a boy or man who lacks compassion is to judge and shame his feelings. ~ Michael Gurian

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for. ~ Michael Leunig

I don't want to have a good fight, I don't want to have an exciting fight, I want to have a finish. ~ Michael Chandler

Anything you fear is a shackle to ur soul. It is a phobia that tethers and blinds ur ability to see and comprehend your life directions, making you feel discouraged and hopeless in times of danger ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Often times, political games prevent senators from even beginning to debate some of the most important issues. ~ Michael Bennet

Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished. ~ Michael Cadnum

Scientific research was much like prospecting: you went out and you hunted, armed with your maps and instruments, but in the ened your preparations did not matter, or even your intuition. You needed your luck, and whatever benefits accrued to the diligent, through sheer, grinding hard work. ~ Michael Crichton

hate comes at you when you make any stand. It's the price of trying to be heard. If that's the case, and we accept it, then it's a waste of emotion to react to the negativity. The hate, the rage that people throw at you only has power if you let it affect you. ~ Michael Bennett

I feel like before I came to the planet I asked God for the gift of music. I didn't want to come here without the gift of music and God granted it to me. ~ Narada Michael Walden

Prayer cannot be measured on a scale of success or failure because it is God's work - and God always succeeds. When we believe we have failed at prayer, it is because we decided what shape our prayer should have and are now frustrated that there is nothing we can do to implement our ambition. Prayer is nothing more or less than the interior action of the Trinity at the level of being. This we cannot control; we can only reverently submit. ~ Michael Casey

It is much more difficult to know what is fair than what is unfair ~ Michael Josephson

I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it. ~ Michael Hutchence

I don't think clarity is necessarily truth. It's simplicity, isn't it? ~ Michael Ondaatje

I am not a player anymore. ~ Michael Irvin

Always be careful of where you run to. When the going gets tough, take it easy and slow down, else you venture into the den of lions. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems. ~ Michael Franti

Falling in love is not rational. It's madness. A beautiful, wonderful moment of magnificent insanity. ~ Michael Faudet

And in that moment he felt- for the first time that optimistic and cheerful boy allowed himself to feel- how badly made life was, how flawed. No matter how richly furnished you made it, with all the noise and variet of Something, Nothing always found a way in, seeped through the cracks and patches. Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won and even the best hitters were put out 70 percent of the time ~ Michael Chabon

To preach the Bible as 'the handbook for life,' or as the answer to every question, rather than as the revelation of Christ, is to turn the Bible into an entirely different book. This is how the Pharisees approached Scripture, as we can see clearly from the questions they asked Jesus. For the Pharisees, the Scriptures were a source of trivia for life's dilemmas. ~ Michael Horton

But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash. Or beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is. ~ Michael Crichton

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological, ~ Michael Warner

I'm not one to call out an individual and say "I don't think that is honest." Who am I to know what is in their heart while they are singing it? ~ Michael Gungor

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them. ~ Michael Moore

When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway. ~ Michael Koryta

Household was making loans at a faster pace than ever. A big source of its growth had been the second mortgage. The document offered a fifteen-year, fixed-rate loan, but it was bizarrely disguised as a thirty-year loan. It took the stream of payments the homeowner would make to Household over fifteen years, spread it hypothetically over thirty years, and asked: If you were making the same dollar payments over thirty years that you are in fact making over fifteen, what would your "effective rate" of interest be? It was a weird, dishonest sales pitch. The borrower was told he had an "effective interest rate of 7 percent" when he was in fact paying something like 12.5 percent. "It was blatant fraud," said Eisman. "They were tricking their customers. ~ Michael Lewis

There are certain words that should never be spoken, names that should never be used. Old things. Undead things. ~ Michael Scott

If you're not the one cooking, stay out of the way and compliment the chef. ~ Michael Strahan

The first thing Gutenberg sought to publish, after the Bible, was a laxative timetable he called a "Purgation-Calendar." Then there is the astonishing number of anal German folk sayings. "As the fish lives in water, so does the shit stick to the asshole!," to select but one of the seemingly endless examples. ~ Michael Lewis

My judgment about what is right for this country will always guide me. ~ Michael Gove

When you're talking to the media, be a well, not a fountain. ~ Michael Deaver

Well, I think my stand-up is often kind of visual. Not like Carrot Top visual, but visual. ~ Michael Ian Black

It's okay not to be okay. ~ Michael Clifford

I have no requirements for a style of architecture. ~ Michael Graves

Stigmas speak to the idea of difference and how difference shames us and those we know. ~ Michael Lewis

Inflation usually helps the economy at large, but not the 1% if wages rise. So the 1% says that it is terrible. ~ Michael Hudson

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass. ~ George Michael

I don't want to be the flavor, the passing thing that the girls scream at. I think that it's more important for me, honestly, that the guy who gets dragged to the show, you know, looks at his wife and says, thank you, that was great and tells his buddies. ~ Michael Buble

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off. ~ Michael Shermer

Anything is possible. I've got a few more miles in me. I'm not going to feel sorry for myself. ~ Michael Flatley