Michael Koryta Quotes

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.

Michael Koryta

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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

Damien Hirst
- You
- Value
- Painting
After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.

Ted Cruz
- Political
- Better
- Media
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

Kassie DePaiva
- Thinking
- You
- Mom
You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

Carl Sagan
I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

Dana Plato
- Character
- Defending
We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
- Time
- Trying
- Fly