Dean Koontz Quotes
In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Quotes to Explore
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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I've always been interested in violence, even as a teenager. I loved 'Helter Skelter' and books like that.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.
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In the long run, we need to build a leadership force of people. We have a whole strategy around not only providing folks with the foundational experience during their two years with us, but also then accelerating their leadership in ways that is strategic for the broader education reform movement.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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The years teach much which the days never know.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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Bankruptocracy is as much a European predicament as it is an American 'invention.' The difference between the experience of the two continents is that at least Americans did not have to labour under the enormous design faults of the eurozone.
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Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
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If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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The Grimm collections were never intended for children. Not because kids were excluded, but because the division we make today of children's literature didn't exist then. The idea of protecting children from tales with violence didn't occur until the earlier part of the 19th century.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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One has to draw upon one's own musical thoughts and one's own musical acumen, and not to be afraid to let that come into one's work. Perhaps that comes with more experience, but perhaps it also comes with daring, and believing that you should.
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Perceived self-efficacy in coping with potential threats leads people to approach such situations anxiously, and experience of disruptive arousal may further lower their sense of efficacy that they will be able to perform skillfully.
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…the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved’s face with one’s nose
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I just keep my eyes open and focus on the things I'm not good at and what makes other people better than me - technique and things outside the Octagon.
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
