My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared. (P. J. Plauger)
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but on (Isaac Asimov)
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. (Mark Twain)
Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. (Sir Winston Churchill)
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. (Saint Francis de Sales)
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional. (Oscar Wilde)
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. (Anna Quindlen)
Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth; capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth. (Lester Brown)