#de

I certainly remember building model rockets. It was fun to watch the rocket blast into the air, suspenseful to wonder if the parachute would open to bring the rocket safely back. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#back #blast #bring #building #certainly

Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all— and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#opinions

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #committee #decisions #deferring #instead

I know nothing about producing TV drama and any involvement on my part is liable to prove an obstacle to the producers, so I prefer to be a cheerleader and let them get on with it. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#any #cheerleader #drama #get #i

Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#advice #being #elements #gives #good

First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#death #death penalty #deter #does #first

Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor? ↗

— Virgil

#defeated #enemy #strategy #valor #whether

I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#dead #i #never #scalpel #taken

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#cause #center #commitment #consent #dies

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#entertained #obviously #order #people #read