“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
― William Gibson
“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” ― Orson Scott Card
“Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true. But, no job is perfect.” ― Daniel Suarez
“I can’t go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.” ― Cory Doctorow
“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.” ― George R.R. Martin
“Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.” ― George R.R. Martin
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.” ― Dale Carnegie,
“Every man dies, but not every man truly lives” — Sonny Barger
“Fixing things may be a cure for narcissism.” – Matthew B. Carwford
“It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation” — Gary Vaynerchuk
“Trust Agents use today’s web tools to spread their influence faster, wider, and deeper than a typical company’s PR or marketing department might be capable of achieving” – Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
“You never question the truth of something until you have to explain it to a skeptic.” — Donald Miller
“Literature enlarges our being by admitting us to experiences not our own. They may be beautiful, terrible, awe-inspiring, exhilarating, pathetic, or comic… My own eyes are not enough for me. In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in a Greek poem, I see with a thousand eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself: and am never more myself than when I do.” – C.S. Lewis
“Nations are like people. When they grow old and rich and fat they get conservative. They exhaust their energy trying to keep things the way they are — and that’s against nature.”
- Pat Frank (Alas, Babylon)
“So it’s you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.”
— Suzanne Collins
“She went around with the attitude that she would rather be beaten to death than take any shit.”
— Stieg Larsson
“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
— Stephen King
“Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor.”
— Suzanne Collins
“We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
— Chuck Palahniuk
“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore it knows it’s not fooling a soul.”
— Neil Gaiman
“Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.”
— Alan Moore
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
— Dr. Seuss
“Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt and live like it’s heaven on Earth.”
— Mark Twain
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Douglas Adams
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
— J.K. Rowling
“I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.”
— Seth Godin
“Go then, there are other worlds than these.”
— Stephen King
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
— Napoleon Hill
