Roger Zelazny quote: "I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows."

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.
ROGER ZELAZNY

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ev...
ROGER ZELAZNY

If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...
ROGER ZELAZNY

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
ROGER ZELAZNY

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
ROGER ZELAZNY

Nobody steals books but your friends.
ROGER ZELAZNY

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny an...
ROGER ZELAZNY

Of all the things a man may do, sleep probably contributes most to keeping him sane. It puts bracket...
ROGER ZELAZNY

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you d...
ROGER ZELAZNY

An army, great in space, may offer opposition in a brief span of time. One man, brief in space, must...
ROGER ZELAZNY

Good-bye and hello, as always.
ROGER ZELAZNY

A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care...
ROGER ZELAZNY

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
ROGER ZELAZNY

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetical...
ROGER ZELAZNY

The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
ROGER ZELAZNY

Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the i...
ROGER ZELAZNY

Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would ...
ROGER ZELAZNY

First, a man may in some ways be superior to his fellows and still serve them, if together they serv...
ROGER ZELAZNY

If it will give you any satisfaction in the end, I still care for you. Either there is no such thing...
ROGER ZELAZNY

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one...
ROGER ZELAZNY

Call themselves?" asked Yama. "You are wrong, Sam, Godhood is more than a name. It is a condition of...
ROGER ZELAZNY

He continued to move forward, skirting a pocket of radiation that had not died in the four years sin...
ROGER ZELAZNY

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.
ROGER ZELAZNY

Пощадата, както имах възможност да науча от личен опит,...
ROGER ZELAZNY

I have a better idea,' said she. 'Know that under a mortal name am I mistress of the Palace of Kama ...
ROGER ZELAZNY

Then the one called Raltariki is really a demon?" asked Tak.

"Yes—and no," said Yama, "...
ROGER ZELAZNY

Most of the standards being developed now have to do with interoperability. Think of the phone jack ...
FRANCES ZELAZNY

Standards are important to large corporations where one office uses one biometric vendor and another...
FRANCES ZELAZNY

PTSD is curable when one realises how the unconscious mind works and that the symptoms of PTSD are a...
ROGER ROGER

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the mid...
ROGER WATERS

When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my ki...
ROGER FEDERER

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and wee...
ROGER STAUBACH

Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular resu...
ROGER STAUBACH

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the p...
ROGER MAHONY

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE

I enjoyed the position I was in as a tennis player. I was to blame when I lost. I was to blame when ...
ROGER FEDERER

You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the be...
ROGER FEDERER

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's ...
ROGER FEDERER

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divor...
ROGER WATERS

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody ...
ROGER DEAKINS

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
ROGER BACON

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.
ROGER SHERMAN

In burgundy, a well-cut and properly tailored velvet blazer looks dashing with gray flannels and a c...
ROGER STONE

Plush velvet conjures up kings and opulence.
ROGER STONE

Bitcoin never sleeps. We need to move quickly and grow quickly and do everything sooner rather than ...
ROGER VER

In the days of segregation, when blacks were limited to certain neighborhoods, you could look around...
ROGER WILKINS

I have a little studio in Chinatown, and I sometimes go there and rearrange my brushes. But I would ...
ROGER REES

I'm as patient a father as I am on the tennis court. It takes a lot for me to get really upset, ...
ROGER FEDERER

Every well-dressed gentleman must have an all-cotton oxford cloth button-down shirt from Brooks Brot...
ROGER STONE

'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Iden...
ROGER AVARY

Unless you are a lawyer or Fortune 500 CEO, carrying a briefcase is, well, nerdy.
ROGER STONE

If you're more interested in looking like a hipster, a jazz musician, or a young hunk, I'd r...
ROGER STONE

From the moment I liberated Brigitte, the moment I showed her how to be truly herself, our marriage ...
ROGER VADIM

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your poc...
ROGER STONE

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a poin...
ROGER PENROSE

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.
ROGER MILLA

Here in Cameroon, football is our leading political party. It's football alone that that unites ...
ROGER MILLA

Cameroon is stronger because it's a country of conquerors, of winners. Cameroon's players ar...
ROGER MILLA

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I thi...
ROGER EBERT

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, s...
ROGER MCGOUGH

Socks must be at least an 18-percent synthetic blend to insure they don't droop, because droopy ...
ROGER STONE

Lots of hardworking, blue-collar people across America have lost their jobs since the 1990s - victim...
ROGER STONE

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending m...
ROGER MOORE

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.
ROGER REES

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's...
ROGER BACON

Blockbusters run the mainstream industry. We may never again have a decade like the 1970s, when dire...
ROGER EBERT

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.
ROGER MOORE

Men play the game; women know the score
ROGER WODDIS

Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.
ROGER STONE

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do...
ROGER BIRKMAN

When wearing a trench coat, you're allowed to act like Humphrey Bogart when he was detective Sam...
ROGER STONE

The universe is made of stories, not atoms.
ROGER PENROSE

Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.
ROGER PENROSE

Illegal immigration is not just a matter of interest in states along our border with Mexico. It is h...
ROGER WICKER

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethi...
ROGER WICKER

What it comes down to is that modern society discriminates against the right hemisphere.
ROGER SPERRY

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do.
ROGER ASCHAM

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on...
ROGER WICKER

The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question ab...
ROGER WICKER

So you think you can tell heaven from hell - blue skies from pain? Can you tell a green field from a...
ROGER WATERS

It is false to suggest that medical breakthroughs come only through government research.
ROGER WICKER

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
JOHN ROGER

Money is the most egalitarian force in society. It confers power on whoever holds it.
ROGER STARR

The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republi...
ROGER STONE

I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.
ROGER STONE

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I woul...
ROGER WATERS

I remember when a Coke came in a six-ounce bottle, and delicious it was. Now it comes in sizes so bi...
ROGER EBERT

Nothing shows both polish and utility like the nattily tucked pocket handkerchief or 'pocket squ...
ROGER STONE

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable...
ROGER L'ESTRANGE

Anything that you do to increase job security automatically does work for you. It makes your employe...
ROGER SMITH

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
ROGER ASCHAM

By experience we find out a shorter way by a long wandering. Learning teacheth more in one year th...
ROGER ASCHAM

Too often students are given answers to remember, rather than problems to solve
ROGER LEWIN

The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don't wait for her. Start alone.
ROGER EBERT

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized ni...
ROGER EBERT

The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew ex...
ROGER BANNISTER

People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being t...
ROGER EBERT

You win not by chance, but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation.
ROGER MARIS

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forc...
ROGER ENRICO

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.
ROGER MOORE

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and y...
ROGER STAUBACH

The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you ...
ROGER WILLIAMS

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
ROGER LEWIN

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge...
ROGER BABSON

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program....
ROGER EBERT

We can learn from history on condition that we understand it is history.
ROGER KAPLAN

Loving is the only sure road out of darkness, the only serum known that cures self-centeredness.
ROGER M'CKUEN

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that les...
ROGER CRAIG

You don't just stumble into the future. You create your own future.
ROGER SMITH

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?
ROGER EBERT

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dres...
ROGER CARAS

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...
ROGER BACON

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. ...
ROGER BIRKMAN

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This ...
ROGER BACON

Inflation is determined by money supply growth.
ROGER BOOTLE

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there ma...
ROGER CARAS

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called ...
ROGER BALDWIN

Cats don't like change without their consent.
ROGER CARAS

Cats can be cooperative when something feels good, which, to a cat, is the way everything is suppose...
ROGER CARAS

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
ROGER BANNISTER

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure kno...
ROGER BACON

To laugh, to lie, to flatter to face, Foure waies in court to win men's grace.
ROGER ASCHAM

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and ...
ROGER STAUBACH

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose d...
ROGER SCRUTON

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confin...
ROGER LEWIS

I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confi...
ROGER LEWIS

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
ROGER KAHN

Reality is the best possible cure for dreams.
ROGER STARR

Every dog has his day - but the nights are reserved for the cats
ROGER CARAS

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
ROGER ROSENBLATT

If somebody wants to book Alec Baldwin on one of our shows, and he wants to come on and talk to our ...
ROGER AILES

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff e...
ROGER CLEMENS

Who would have ever thought that I'd end up saying that I want to be an all-around entertainer? ...
ROGER DALTREY

Bitcoin is amazingly transformative because it's the first time in the entire history of the wor...
ROGER VER

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississi...
ROGER WICKER

There is nothing - nothing - worse than seeing ankle or a hairy calf when a man in a suit or trouser...
ROGER STONE

Horse racing is animated roulette.
ROGER KAHN

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong someth...
ROGER ROSENBLATT

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desire...
ROGER EBERT

The skills I acquired in Southeastern Louisiana University, Thrifty Drugs, Pacific Mutual, along wit...
ROGER WANG

CNN and MSNBC, our primary competitors, are trying to figure out how to beat us. There are some good...
ROGER AILES

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have...
ROGER STAUBACH

I was considered chubby as a teen.
ROGER MOORE

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This ...
ROGER BACON

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and ...
ROGER MOORE

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. I...
ROGER ROSENBLATT

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
ROGER KAHN

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
ROGER KAHN

We do foreign assistance for altruistic reasons, certainly for humanitarian reasons, of course. But ...
ROGER WICKER

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.
ROGER MOORE

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
ROGER CARAS

Cats don't like change without their consent.
ROGER CARAS

I am as confounded by dogs as I am indebted to them.
ROGER CARAS

Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walk...
ROGER CARAS

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but ther...
ROGER CARAS

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.
ROGER EBERT

Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirat...
ROGER EBERT

My motto: 'No good movie is depressing. All bad movies are depressing.'
ROGER EBERT

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of...
ROGER EBERT

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
ROGER EBERT

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
ROGER EBERT

It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
ROGER EBERT

I think that probably the - I don't give quotes to studios. They have to get those out of the pa...
ROGER EBERT

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and dis...
ROGER EBERT

We don't have a lot of class-conscious filmmaking.
ROGER EBERT

It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
ROGER EBERT

I've never found kicks to the groin particularly funny, although recent work in the genre of the...
ROGER EBERT

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
ROGER EBERT

Open-heart surgery is now part of a typical life experience for many people. Folks talk casually abo...
ROGER EBERT

No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
ROGER EBERT

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.
ROGER EBERT

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusi...
ROGER EBERT

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natu...
ROGER EBERT

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand t...
ROGER EBERT

Nothing ever seems straightforward in Venice, least of all its romances.
ROGER EBERT

One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open t...
ROGER EBERT

To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must t...
ROGER EBERT

Parents and schools should place great emphasis on the idea that it is all right to be different. Ra...
ROGER EBERT

There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase...
ROGER EBERT

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you.
ROGER EBERT

That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmon...
ROGER MCGUINN

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
ROGER MILLER

The reason I'm a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.
ROGER STONE

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men...
ROGER EBERT

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against t...
ROGER WICKER

The war on terrorism has made national security a legitimate concern, and a rising deficit, changes ...
ROGER MAHONY

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.
ROGER MOORE

' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' p...
ROGER EBERT

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.
ROGER STAUBACH

Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashi...
ROGER STONE

You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to ...
ROGER STONE

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaig...
ROGER STONE

Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media ...
ROGER STONE

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists a...
ROGER AILES

Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS

The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is...
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE

The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cli...
ROGER GOODELL

From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

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Roger Zelazny

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.

Roger Zelazny

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