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"I had a veritable mania for finishing whatever I began, which often got me into difficulties. On one occasion I started to read the works of Voltaire when I learned, to my dismay, that there were close on one hundred large volumes in small print which that monster had written while drinking seventy-two cups of black coffee per diem. It had to be done, but when I laid aside the last book I was very glad, and said, 'Never more!'" Nikola Tesla
"Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging."
"Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light." Dorothy Thompson
"After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down."
"I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity." Sir Edward Richard George Heath
"Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business."
"In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways."
"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed." David Hockney
"I'd give Charles Darwin videotapes of 'Geraldo,' 'Beavis and Butt-head' and 'The McLaughlin Group.' I would be interested in seeing if he still believes in evolution."
  • Dean R. Koontz
    (07/09/1945 – )
    US writer, on what gift he'd like to present to another writer, living or dead
Dean R. Koontz
"Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a permanent loser." Orenthal James Simpson
"If you can feel like a good man in your 40s, you can feel like a better man in your 50s, a Superman in your 60s, and maybe a Spider-Man in your 70s." Tom Hanks
"F*** yeah, man! I'm a rock star girl!" Courtney Michelle Harrison
"We weren't afraid of success, we were afraid of being punished for it." John Anthony Gillis
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