K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral...
HARLAN ELLISON The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
HARLAN ELLISON Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...
HARLAN ELLISON The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
HARLAN ELLISON You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is en...
HARLAN ELLISON Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go
HARLAN ELLISON The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some pe...
HARLAN ELLISON I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than l...
HARLAN ELLISON True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
HARLAN ELLISON I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or do...
HARLAN ELLISON I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
HARLAN ELLISON [On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or th...
HARLAN ELLISON I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes ...
HARLAN ELLISON I have no mouth, and I must scream.
HARLAN ELLISON If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they...
HARLAN ELLISON When belief in a god dies, the god dies
HARLAN ELLISON People who can't get laid watch _Star Trek_ and eat Twinkies!
HARLAN ELLISON Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
HARLAN ELLISON And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinio...
HARLAN ELLISON Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of co...
HARLAN ELLISON Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by...
HARLAN ELLISON Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look lik...
HARLAN ELLISON It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a da...
HARLAN ELLISON I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid
HARLAN ELLISON In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid i...
HARLAN ELLISON Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpa...
HARLAN ELLISON The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I...
HARLAN ELLISON If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump.
HARLAN ELLISON HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION...
HARLAN ELLISON K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral i...
HARLAN ELLISON To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another wa...
HARLAN STONE Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a ...
HARLAN STONE Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
HARLAN STONE A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But t...
HARLAN COBEN I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a littl...
HARLAN COBEN 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who sho...
HARLAN COBEN I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think...
HARLAN COBEN Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I ...
HARLAN COBEN I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
HARLAN COBEN In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
HARLAN COBEN I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
HARLAN COBEN The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I ke...
HARLAN COBEN When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don...
HARLAN COBEN You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, becaus...
HARLAN COBEN Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
HARLAN COBEN A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was m...
HARLAN COBEN What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the...
HARLAN COBEN In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. W...
HARLAN COBEN Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you...
HARLAN COBEN I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when yo...
HARLAN COBEN More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
HARLAN COBEN I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and sti...
HARLAN COBEN Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about thre...
HARLAN MILLER Country music is three chords and the truth.
HARLAN HOWARD I learned why they're called wonder drugs -- you wonder what they'll do to you.
HARLAN MILLER Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
HARLAN COBEN Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, fo...
HARLAN COBEN And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, ...
HARLAN COBEN I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
HARLAN HOWARD This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments...
HARLAN COBEN Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the fi...
HARLAN COBEN I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. ...
HARLAN COBEN I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game....
HARLAN COBEN I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and ha...
HARLAN COBEN The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the ...
HARLAN COBEN The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most ...
HARLAN COBEN Those men established and raised this franchise to new heights.
BOB HARLAN I don't think his legacy will ever shrink.
BOB HARLAN That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise,
BOB HARLAN It gives them something a little special.
BOB HARLAN Everybody's asking me if he said this would be his last year. Ted did not say anything about that. H...
BOB HARLAN I want to answer their request. We listen to them. They are the owners. I also want them to know we ...
BOB HARLAN Lombardi's on a high pedestal and deserves to be.
BOB HARLAN He was very honored. I told him to look up there (the facade of Lambeau Field) and picture his name ...
BOB HARLAN (Favre) hasn't told me personally, and I had lunch with Mike and Ted earlier (Friday), and he hadn't...
BOB HARLAN Continuation of the salary cap was our No. 1 goal. Without it, the long-term viability of the Packer...
BOB HARLAN The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in ...
HARLAN MILLER Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a ...
HARLAN STONE So far in 2006 we've had 17 calls, most in the past three to four weeks.
HARLAN MILLER It was very clear the judge was displeased that the commissioners have failed to do their job and ge...
HARLAN MILLER war in the streets.
HARLAN MILLER I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
HARLAN MILLER My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I...
HARLAN COBEN I don't care who's checking him, he'll get open.
ANDRE HARLAN I always said the calendar was working in our favor. If he was going to (retire), he would have told...
BOB HARLAN That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise. It was huge. He sent a message to the r...
BOB HARLAN That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise. It was huge, ... He sent a message to t...
BOB HARLAN As long as you have the chairman (title) and you're the CEO, you're still in charge of the organizat...
BOB HARLAN A lot of it is strictly media speculation. There are all kinds of names thrown out there. Ted (Thomp...
BOB HARLAN The female customer is used to a much higher level of detail and much more aesthetic.
HARLAN GARDINER Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of poli...
HARLAN COBEN You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality a...
HARLAN COBEN He's not the fastest guy. But he always gets open and makes the big catch. He runs the best routes I...
ANDRE HARLAN When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved i...
HARLAN COBEN If you have a roof over your head, clothes on you back, and food in your mouth. Please don't tell me...
HARLAN JEFFERSON I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.
HARLAN HOWARD Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often s...
HARLAN MILLER Her smile shames the sun
HARLAN COBEN There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I forc...
HARLAN COBEN ..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
HARLAN COBEN With regard to what the United States is doing on climate change, the actions we have taken are next...
HARLAN WATSON Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating ...
HARLAN COBEN The ugliest truth is still better than the prettiest of lies.
HARLAN COBEN I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
HARLAN COBEN There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
HARLAN COBEN I told the seniors after the third game, 'This is what you've been busting your butts since June 1, ...
TR HARLAN It's not the dead even. They're gone. Nothing you can do about that. It's what's left behind - the e...
HARLAN COBEN Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
HARLAN COBEN There's a difference between climate and extreme weather, ... Our scientists continually tell us we ...
HARLAN WATSON The United States is opposed to any such discussions.
HARLAN WATSON We need to pursue our international efforts in a spirit of cooperation - not coercion - with a true ...
HARLAN WATSON but I can't guarantee it's going to continue.
HARLAN WATSON One can argue whether it's slowing down fast enough, but it is slowing down. We're doing better than...
HARLAN WATSON There are many, many different ideas. People are not yet ready to move ahead under the convention. T...
HARLAN WATSON We're going to resist it, obviously.
HARLAN WATSON We are working hard on some of the advanced technologies ... but the development and deployment of t...
HARLAN WATSON A targets and timetables approach will not work for us.
HARLAN WATSON Preemption is and always will be a potentially useful tool, but it's not something you want to trot ...
HARLAN ULLMAN You have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or ...
HARLAN ULLMAN For example, we are dependent on India for much of our software. So is that a vulnerability? Is that...
HARLAN ULLMAN The gesture, albeit insulting, had no sexual meaning, did not appeal to anyone's prurient interest, ...
HARLAN STONE To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another wa...
HARLAN STONE We really need to know more about the radiation environment on the Moon, especially if people will b...
HARLAN SPENCE An insolvent company—in this case, Enron—is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB An insolvent company - in this case, Enron - is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB An insolvent company — in this case, Enron — is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB An insolvent company in this case, Enron is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB An insolvent company -- in this case, Enron -- is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
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HARLAN HOWARD Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
HARLAN HOWARD A lot of songs you write are just for exercise -- just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD Work is both my living and my pleasure.
HARLAN HOWARD I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
HARLAN HOWARD Specific design needs to come into play for the female golfer. For example, women's golf clubs are a...
HARLAN GARDINER I took it as a challenge. For us, the move to address the (Girl) market directly, head-on, really co...
HARLAN GARDINER There's a much higher level of organization in our Girl line.
HARLAN GARDINER Bigfoot Networks products will infuse online gaming with blazing speed, making them a ton more fun. ...
HARLAN BEVERLY We are to online games what 3D video cards are to graphics: essential. Eventually, we plan to comple...
HARLAN BEVERLY We did not quite get all of the alignments we wanted, but we did do some things right. We put oursel...
GARY HARLAN You look at the match going in on paper and figure, this one and this one we don't have a chance of ...
GARY HARLAN Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.
HARLAN TARBELL In sum," Midlife said, giving the room his best you-the-jury baritone, "Our defense will be...?" He ...
HARLAN COBEN Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
RALPH ELLISON There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
RALPH ELLISON Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
RALPH ELLISON The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and...
RALPH ELLISON Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
RALPH ELLISON By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You migh...
RALPH ELLISON Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him...
RALPH ELLISON America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
RALPH ELLISON Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to ha...
RALPH ELLISON I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might e...
RALPH ELLISON Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
RALPH ELLISON A Republican philosophy goes something like this: If you take your car to the mechanic, and instead ...
KEITH ELLISON Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.
KEITH ELLISON We think we're going to be especially strong in platform where we have our two platform brands: ...
LARRY ELLISON Autonomy was shopped to us. We looked at the price and thought it was absurdly high.
LARRY ELLISON The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
LARRY ELLISON I wish HP nothing but the best. I think HP is an icon. Those of us who had their careers in the Vall...
LARRY ELLISON Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
LARRY ELLISON I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.
LARRY ELLISON To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I d...
LARRY ELLISON What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help fi...
LARRY ELLISON I'm in two modes when I'm on Lanai: In engineering mode, I'm trying to find the right pl...
LARRY ELLISON It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
LARRY ELLISON Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
LARRY ELLISON It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own ...
LARRY ELLISON What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those peo...
LARRY ELLISON I have had all of the disadvantages required for success.
LARRY ELLISON When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.
LARRY ELLISON A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big ch...
LARRY ELLISON We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
LARRY ELLISON I believe people have to follow their dreams - I did.
LARRY ELLISON I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, ...
JENNIFER ELLISON You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion a...
KEITH ELLISON So why do I write, torturing myself to put it down? Because in spite of myself I've learned some thi...
RALPH ELLISON When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
RALPH ELLISON Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain de...
RALPH ELLISON America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become...
RALPH ELLISON The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
RALPH ELLISON Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of s...
RALPH ELLISON There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can ...
RALPH ELLISON I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might ...
RALPH ELLISON Education is all a matter of building bridges.
RALPH ELLISON They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisti...
LARRY ELLISON Going home and spending time with your family and your real friends keeps you grounded.
JENNIFER ELLISON I don't find it a struggle to maintain a healthy diet now as my palate has changed. I don't ...
JENNIFER ELLISON At the end of the day, the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott had to be converted into the 1964 Civil Right...
KEITH ELLISON Clean air and a healthy climate benefit all of us, but it will take a diverse coalition to step up t...
KEITH ELLISON I think because I did a lot of modelling and appeared in lads mags a lot of women didn't necessa...
JENNIFER ELLISON I think it's dangerous to prosecute people for their political views and their political associa...
KEITH ELLISON Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' b...
LARRY ELLISON We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM an...
LARRY ELLISON We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers runni...
LARRY ELLISON Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
LARRY ELLISON I have a deep and personal aversion to anti-Semitism regardless of its source, and I reject and cond...
KEITH ELLISON When you write a program for Android, you use the Oracle Java tools for everything, and at the very ...
LARRY ELLISON