Anne McCaffrey Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
-
When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.
-
Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
-
But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
-
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
-
If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
-
I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
-
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
-
Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
-
The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading.
-
I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
-
I love a good fight and I think a bad fight can ruin a movie. I really do.
-
When you have a country that can boast that more than 95 percent of its eligible workforce is employed and pumping money back into economy, that's exceptionally good news, especially as we prepare to observe Labor Day.
-
My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
-
I haven't done a marathon for a long time. So we'll see. I will need good luck.
-
There's no good guys and bad guys.
-
The good thing about execution issues are that they are within our control.
-
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-
Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
-
I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.
-
Some people in Silicon Valley are as bad as the 'Koch Brothers', you know? Don't be mistaken. For every some of those, though, you get people who come up with something like 'Leafly', which does what 'Yelp' has done, but in a much more specific way, and it's important because it's the dawn of this new era.
-
So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.
-
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.
-
A good story is a good story no matter who wrote it.
