I never lost money by turning a profit.
I have had really positive experiences in every medium, as well as horrible experiences in every medium.
So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.
I wrote for 10 years before I even started the 'Percy Jackson' series.
Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.
When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
People take more pains to be damned than to be saved.
I clear my mind; I don't think about the pressure before a fight. I focus on going in the cage and being successful while doing my job.
There are jokes about ambitious debaters being the next ted cruz.
Every labourer is worthy of his hire.
With apple's investment it became even more difficult for uber to raise money.
When I read the script for 'War Horse,' I was in absolute tatters.
I think speculative fiction has fewer unspoken prerequisites than literary fiction for writers of color.
We've been listening to Wagner, which is so great.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
