David H. Millar > David's Quotes

“I'd like to be a successful author before my hairline recedes further! OK I'm vain”
― David H. Millar

“From school desks with inkwells and scratchy nibs on paper to sweaty finger prints on a tablet... technology progression yes... style?”
― David H. Millar

“Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb’s bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room’s ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.”
― David H. Millar, Conall: The Place of Blood - Rinn-Iru

“These days. Most of us have the attention span of a meth-addicted squirrel.”
― Kristen Lamb, Rise of the Machines--Human Authors in a Digital World

“Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.”
― Omar N. Bradley

“It was then that Hook bit him.
Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm a drinker with writing problems.”
― Brendan Behan

“Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either. ”
― Gore Vidal

“The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.”
― Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato

“Daddy drove us to temple every Sunday morning, singing 'Jesus Loves Me, This I know' in the car. Then I'd go into Hebrew school and sing it for the rabbi. That caused quite a stir.”
― Dyan Cannon, Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant

“I saw a sign that said 'Drink Canada Dry'. So I did.”
― Brendan Behan, The Complete Plays: The Hostage / The Quare Fellow / Richard's Cork Leg / Moving Out / A Garden Party / The Big House

“I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”
― Ray Bradbury

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
― Edward Abbey, The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“It's wildly irritating to have invented something as revolutionary as sarcasm, only to have it abused by amateurs.”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit their homes, the children's rooms are crammed with expensive books, but the parent's rooms are empty. Those children do not see their parents reading, as I did every day of my childhood. By contrast, when I walk into an apartment with books on the shelves, books on the bedside tables, books on the floor, and books on the toilet tank, then I know what I would see if I opened the door that says 'PRIVATE--GROWNUPS KEEP OUT': a child sprawled on the bed, reading.”
― Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

“I would've sold London if I could have found a buyer.”
― Richard the Lionheart

“I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.”
― Plutarch

“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop.”
― Ovid

“Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.”
― Humphrey Bogart

“The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham