Margaret Atwood Quotes

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that 'Oryx and Crake' is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it's neutral.

Margaret Atwood

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ScienceMistakeThinkingToolsBad

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility.

Johannes Tauler

GodYourselfHumilityJudgeYouOwn

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

John Kenneth Galbraith

PowerIgnoranceBookDevilDoing

There comes a time when even icons, if they choose to do so, should be allowed to enjoy life out of the spotlight.

Robert Osborne

LifeEnjoy LifeTimeEnjoyChoose

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.

Matt Haig

OptimismThinkStandEarlyDark

I grew up overseas in Indonesia, and my school had a great art, music, and theatre program.

Angela Kinsey

MusicGreatArtSchoolTheatreUp

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Amanda Hocking

FindingWeekWantHoursWriterEtc

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Tom McClintock

FreeBelieveI BelieveHold

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

Robert Farrar Capon

DailyDayBreadPastaWillNever

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over, one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

Jules Verne

I AmMoonEarthDistanceSerious

Let me get my money's worth if I'm going to get some techs.

Draymond Green

MoneyMeWorthGoingGetSome

She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.

Dorothy L. Sayers

FaceFactsEnoughYouLookRun

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Chuck Jones

WorkLoveSimpleYourselfYouRules

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