S. Gregory Quotes

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

As the nation-state has monopolized habeas corpus … on balance we have far more people in prison, federal and state, than ever.

Today most habeas involves the federal courts overriding state convictionswhere it used to be mostly the reverse.

God gets the easiest performance reviews.

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

Elections are about choices. They're about distinguishing one from the other. There is a political element to that, and of course it has to do with policy, as well.

I am one of the funniest people on the planet.

The Marine Corps taught me that I could achieve my goals. In short, the Marines made me believe in myself.

Home is a complex and resonant idea.

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

Employees cannot become more productive in every sense of the word unless they are provided with continuous on-the-job training.

This decade holds many changes for the United States, but the greatest needs regarding America's productivity in the 1990s, are better education and employee training.

Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.

In the nature of the case, an explorer can never know what he is exploring until it has been explored.

Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind.

Prediction can never be absolutely valid and therefore science can never prove some generalization or even test a single descriptive statement and in that way arrive at final truth.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.

Religions do not teach doubt.

If you are losing at a game, change the game.

The biggest mistake is being too afraid of making one.

One of the laws of nature," Gordon said, "is that half the people have got to be below average.""For a Gaussian distribution, yeah," Cooper said. "Sad, though.

The peers just fill the air with their speeches.""And from what I've seen, vice versa.

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Disintegration of structure equals information loss.

Peter Watts delivers-solid, inventive hard sf about the deep sea, but as we've never seen before. This moves like the wind.

Everybody feels he has a right to a life of luxury - or at least comfort - so there's a lot of frustration and resentment when the dream craps out.

At least being prosperous set one apart in England; here it guaranteed nothing, not even taste.

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes, ears, and noses of another species.

When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

I feel capitol punishment is dooming U.S.A.

I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.

There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.

I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

I never know what to call the subjects in my pictures because I'm uncomfortable with the word actor. I think maybe subjects might be more accurate - or maybe even more accurate is objects.