Quotes

I love quotes that are succinct and honest. Included below are some of my favorites.

Stephen King

His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance. - Salems Lot

Alone. Yes, thats the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.... - Salems Lot

Frank Herbert

Your habits always come hunting after you. The self you construct will haunt you

And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life — we went soft, we lost our edge.

Hope clouds observation.

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning "That path leads ever down into stagnation."

Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Vladamir Zworykin

One cannot stumble on an idea unless one is running.

Turing's Cathedral p. 67

Alan Watts

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.