That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I swear, the reason for full moons is so the gods can more clearly see the mischief they create.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm.
“Yes, I see it, but—”
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MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked.
“With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?”
“Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN No god, goddess, or spirit would ever inhabit or employ a chicken.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.--The Book o...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When faced with certain death, running is sensible, but I think a man can make an unhealthy habit of...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Suri had a wolf named Minna. They were the best of friends and roamed the forest together. She had t...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Spring had let go of Winter's hand and was reaching out to Summer
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN That’s what a good wife does, keeps your dreams alive even when you don’t believe anymore.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN And if you can't trust an ancient talking tree, what was the point of having one?
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Fulfillment comes from striving to succeed, to survive by your own wits and strength. Such things ma...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I’m Tekchin,” he said, exchanging an empty gourd for a full one. “The handsomest and most skil...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Fools believe silence is a void needing to be filled; the wise understand there's no such thing as s...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sometimes the price of dreams is achieving them.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When you are so ashamed of your actions, thoughts, or intentions, you lie rather than accepting your...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN After catching an arrow in the back and passing out in Tom the Feather’s barnyard, Hadrian had wok...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A lot can be determined by the choices we make, even if the action is initiated by self-preservation...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN We are more than the bodies we inhabit," Fawkes said. "They're little more than clothes, and yet we ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I tried to find a way to go on. I could see familiar traces of the path that was my life, but there ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If given a choice between a potentially great hardship and doing nothing, people gravitate toward wh...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What’s going on?” Royce asked as throngs of people suddenly moved toward him from the field and ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up.
“Don’t bother,” Esrahaddon told them. �...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?”
“A rat bit me,” she said, o...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Hadrian shook his head and sighed. “Why do you have to make everything so difficult? They’re pro...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN We are pleased so many of our customers donated to such a worthy cause.
MICHAEL SULLIVAN As much as they are free forms, they are still landscapes. He always wants to show the landscape.
MICHAEL SULLIVAN As much as we might like to recoup our costs, that's not something we can arbitrarily do. It's a hig...
MICHAEL SULLIVAN We put up 21 thousand dollars, it is a great opportunity and a huge success,
MICHAEL SULLIVAN I would be embarrassed. Then again, it is kind of common,
MICHAEL SULLIVAN The reason they like them is they are outward forms,
MICHAEL SULLIVAN I love making lists.
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he ...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I love the smell of a man's skin.
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that yo...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. Th...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more fle...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this mean...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an a...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN A glimpse at my night stand gives the mostly true impression that I am a book hoarder.
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by str...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthin...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a litt...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations b...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort o...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Women leave their marriages when they can't take any more. Men leave when they find someone new.
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Bree knew this habit of hers rankled Lara more than any other--her ability to make a decision and an...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN I think we're just different sorts of people, me and you. You're a planner. Everything has to be per...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN If you want to pay respects, by the way, he's at the zoo."
"At the zoo? As in the zoo?"
"J...
MATTHEW J. SULLIVAN She often wondered what the hell was wrong with men. Sex could be fun, natural, good. Why did they h...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN And then there were the things Sally knew her mother would have loved. Those, too, made it easy to i...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Sometimes April worried that she'd been built without some fundamental piece that everyone else had ...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN It felt something like being in love, but without the weight of having to choose just one heart to h...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN With the Smithies, it was different. There was sometimes no telling where one of them began and the ...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN You could sell crack on the street and go to jail for decades. Or you could sell a woman, and be bac...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN All over the planet women were being tormented, yet if you took sexism seriously, you were a bore, a...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Once this kid came into the world, Sally knew, she would live in constant terror of somehow injuring...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being,...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN These fucking women really piss me off,' April said. 'Because instead of being elated by the thought...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearv...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN We don't always do the things our parents want us to do, but it is their mistake if they can't find ...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Family is not an important thing. It's everything.
MICHAEL J. FOX I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and th...
MICHAEL J. FOX In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human bei...
MICHAEL J. FOX Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone's watching or not.
MICHAEL J. FOX The moment I understood this - that my Parkinson's was the one thing I wasn't going to chang...
MICHAEL J. FOX The laughs mean more to me than the adoration. If two girls walk up to me and one says 'you'...
MICHAEL J. FOX The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.
MICHAEL J. FOX My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectatio...
MICHAEL J. FOX I like to encourage people to realize that any action is a good action if it's proactive and the...
MICHAEL J. FOX I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion ...
MICHAEL J. FOX I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding t...
MICHAEL J. FOX The oldest form of theater is the dinner table. It's got five or six people, new show every nigh...
MICHAEL J. FOX Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
MICHAEL J. FOX I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I...
MICHAEL J. FOX But the key to our marriage is the capacity to give each other a break. And to realize that it's...
MICHAEL J. FOX Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural ha...
MICHAEL J. FOX The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for t...
MICHAEL J. FOX I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is Go...
MICHAEL J. FOX There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But ...
MICHAEL J. FOX When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You should do what you enjoy doing, what brings you passion. As kids, we spontaneously sing and danc...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by o...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothi...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man runnin...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I've always been kind of a mutt creatively. I started off in journalism, and I've actually d...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an ...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP My life in science has been rich and rewarding. I have sacrificed very little.
J. MICHAEL BISHOP During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who car...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teachin...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engend...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP We are in a tech-heavy society, plunging headlong into an unknown future. Science fiction is what al...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a de...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI On a purely personal level, it's very strange, because as a kid, Superman informed my personalit...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI When I saw Wonder Woman being constantly put in positions where she'd get tied up with her own r...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they h...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Medical science has proven time and again that when the resources are provided, great progress in th...
MICHAEL J. FOX Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you ...
MICHAEL J. FOX Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and tha...
MICHAEL J. FOX When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short ...
MICHAEL J. FOX The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the a...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI 'Twin Peaks' is one of those Rorschach ink blot things, where everybody finds their own favo...
MICHAEL J. ANDERSON I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or wh...
MICHAEL J. FOX I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to ...
MICHAEL J. FOX In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multipl...
MICHAEL J. BEHE Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't mat...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Touch passion when it comes your way...It
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI ... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development...
MICHAEL J. GELB Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pas...
MICHAEL J. GELB Your are in charge. You have the ability to master you destiny.
MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY The capabilities of the human mind are enormous. There is usually no inherent reason you cannot acco...
MICHAEL J. MCCARTHY I got sick of turning on the TV and seeing my face.
MICHAEL J. FOX Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
MICHAEL J. GELB No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no gre...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless...
MICHAEL J. FOX If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted i...
MICHAEL J. TUCKER I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is G...
MICHAEL J. FOX One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is...
MICHAEL J. FOX The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is wh...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Vo...
MICHAEL J. FOX We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a di...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other all...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long a...
MICHAEL J. FOX My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student o...
MICHAEL J. FOX The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can se...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO I entered Harvard Medical School knowing nothing of research.
J. MICHAEL BISHOP If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy...
MICHAEL J. FOX People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not be...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we belie...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI So I never spend a lot of time analyzing why people respond to my work. But I think that it's ju...
MICHAEL J. FOX My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
MICHAEL J. FOX I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.
MICHAEL J. FOX My youth held little forecast of a career in biomedical research. I was born on February 22, 1936, i...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, st...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR The Saylor Foundation is meant to be a gadfly to encourage Google, Apple, MIT, Harvard, the United S...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, o...
MICHAEL J. COHEN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan...
MICHAEL J. FOX Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The closest natural area to you is the wild, naturally intelligent biological community within you.
MICHAEL J. COHEN Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any a...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO In every other science fiction series, humans are at the top of the food chain. In the 'Babylon ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but...
J. MICHAEL BISHOP Follow your passion. The rest will attend to itself. If I can do it, anybody can do it. It's pos...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless i...
MICHAEL J. FOX Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What mak...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I can easily come up with ten really iconic stories/trade paperbacks for Superman, Batman, others......
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Pity is a benign form of abuse.
MICHAEL J. FOX The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
MICHAEL J. FOX Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI So what I say about Tracy is this: Tracy's big challenge is not having a Parkinson's patient...
MICHAEL J. FOX After all that I'd been through, after all that I'd learned and all that I'd been given, I was going...
MICHAEL J. FOX There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can mak...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological current...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a te...
MICHAEL J. FOX I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interes...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going...
MICHAEL J. FOX I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is...
MICHAEL J FOX My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd ...
MICHAEL J. SAYLOR If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those f...
MICHAEL J. FOX I think there's a god and I know it's not me.
MICHAEL J. FOX There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end...
MICHAEL J. FOX When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an opt...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in s...
MICHAEL J. MASSIMINO By the time I entered high school, I had forsaken academics altogether in favor of my burgeoning act...
MICHAEL J. FOX