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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—”
�...
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

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

NEVER INTERFERE WITH MELENGAR AGAIN
BY ORDER OF THE KING
… AND US
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

No god, goddess, or spirit would ever inhabit or employ a chicken.

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