P. O'Brien Quotes

By shooting the darkest areas three zones lighter, you turned a black, lifeless max black zone 0 into a zone 3. I think, in life, most of us did this all the time.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

Never rely upon a time machine to fix your problems, as everyone knows, they're much too faulty.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.

In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

My one regret was that I never photographed the bat before we drank it.

I have a company attitude about my work. I don't like to do just one thing I like to do a lot of things.

I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center's initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston's and Texas' continued growth.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.

In fiction workshops, we tend to focus on matters of verisimilitude largely because such issues are so much easier to talk about than the failure of imagination.

I'm proud to be part of the fabric that inspires the next generations to remain curious and remember that 'smart is cool.'

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

I do get to have my normal childhood. I just love to get together with my friends and family and have a good time.

I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life.

I learned that moral courage is harder than physical courage.

Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.

I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.

Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.