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I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep...
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The very best way I can make any reader believe in the nuts and bolts of an art form... is to know t...
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She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.
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A hand fought best when it made a fist.
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Do we value privacy in any real way? Thinking about blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace... all these s...
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There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.
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Fantasy is more than an escape from the truths of the world and the past: it is an open acknowledgme...
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We are all shaped by where we grow up, though that shaping takes different forms. I don't think ...
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When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time a...
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Full moon is falling through the sky.
Cranes fly through clouds.
Wolves howl. I cannot ...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY When I was 18 years old, in a more innocent time, my first backpacking trip through Europe, I sneake...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Liu Fang is a truly gifted, world-famous player of the pipa and the guzheng, classical Chinese strin...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in lo...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY It was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made rea...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, wh...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY [We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than ju...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY He sang one whole verse directly to her, then, in fidelity to the song, he sent his vision inward to...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY It was the doing, he learned quickly enough—in the first inn that refused to serve him his request...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY We should have met in Finavir.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Devin wondered how often men did what they did, made the choices of their lives, for reasons that we...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY He could guess, analyze, play out scenarios in his mind, but he would never know. It was a night-tim...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY His intelligence stretched her to the limits, and then changed what those limits were.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY And in that moment Dianora had a truth brought home to her with finality: how something can seem qui...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Catriana sighed. "I'm hard to make friends with," she said at length. "I doubt it's worth your effor...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY It's the simple truth that mortal men cannot understand why the gods shape events as they do. Why so...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY She lifted her hands and closed them around his head... and it seemed to Catriana in that moment as ...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Eanna love us, Adaon preserve us, Morian guard our souls.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY He gave them what they demanded of him, he obeyed the command, but not sullenly or diffidently, and ...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Tigana, let my memory of
you be like a blade in my
soul.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeyin...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY ... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to com...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY When I'm all grown up, come what may,
I'll build a boat to carry me away
GUY GAVRIEL KAY The heart has its own laws... and the truth is... the truth is that you are the law of mine.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY One man sees a riselka: his life forks there.
Two men see a riselka: one of them shall die.<...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Words were power, words tried to change you, to shape bridges of longing that no one could ever real...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY In this world, where we find ourselves, we need compassion more than anything, I think, or we are al...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any c...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I'm still proud of the 'Fionavar Tapestry.' The fact I don't write the same way is a...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!
GUY GAVRIEL KAY In general, the main themes emerge early for each book, even before the storyline and characters, as...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Significant consequences can begin very inconsequentially. That's one thing that fascinates me. ...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY As many have noted, the peril for authors is that our work space is too easily our play space.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I'm happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He's a Spanish national he...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I had been obsessed with the Arthurian legends all my life, and I knew that that would work its way ...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do th...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I grew up in a bookish family, so I read very widely. I was omnivorous, really.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, af...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a m...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY When I am reading for research and making notes, I use a cleverly designed curved lap-desk, and I si...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Tal...
GUY GAVRIEL KAY I will not say I am sorry, but I can tell you that I grieve.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY They did not like each other particularly, would never have called one another friend or even have a...
GAVRIEL SAVIT When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that&...
JAY KAY If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to...
KAY PANABAKER People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
ALAN KAY Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I ...
SARAH KAY My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the k...
KAY ROBERTSON Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of ea...
ALAN KAY The fabric of North Carolina and what makes our state so special is our families and our common desi...
KAY HAGAN The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be s...
ALAN KAY Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tel...
KAY LYONS I was in relays for track where you just bonded with all these different kinds of personalities who ...
KAY CANNON Hardly anyone understands the principles behind magic,"scoffed Betony. "It's too difficult.
ELIZABETH KAY perhaps,thought Felix,that's what magic is--physics with a different twist to it.
my world just...
ELIZABETH KAY You're not standing on your head! Have a cookie. - Grimspite in Jinx on the Divide
ELIZABETH KAY Love is missing someone whenever you're apart, but somehow feeling warm inside because you're close ...
KAY KNUDSEN If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because ...
SARAH KAY I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
SARAH KAY Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have; so sp...
KAY LYONS And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to tak...
SUSAN KAY The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
ALAN KAY If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough.
ALAN KAY The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.
KAY GRANGER I'm in this absolutely gorgeous manor house with acres of quite beautiful countryside. I've ...
JAY KAY I'm not gonna give the British Government the joy of keeping taxing me. They don't tax art. ...
JAY KAY I've actually always wanted to be able to read people's minds. My sister did a movie with su...
KAY PANABAKER Human rights are not a privilege granted by the few, they are a liberty entitled to all, and human r...
KAY GRANGER In responding to a terrorist attack, there are only two choices - take the fight to the enemy or wai...
KAY GRANGER I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are g...
KAY CANNON North Carolina is strong because our people are strong. They define our state - by their hard work, ...
KAY HAGAN I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's ca...
KAY GRANGER It's rough being a teenager in this day and age.
KAY PANABAKER Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of thes...
SARAH KAY The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.
DAVID KAY We spent a month in LA using a pool of musicians, a string arranger called Benjamin Wright, some gre...
JAY KAY Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possib...
SARAH KAY Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his ...
ALAN KAY I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you...
JAY KAY There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very d...
ALAN KAY I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let ...
SARAH KAY None of us can choose where we shall love...
SUSAN KAY I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that he...
JAY KAY I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. I love making the ...
KAY ROBERTSON Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have-so spe...
KAY LYONS Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybird...
JAY KAY Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.
KAY RYAN With components in abundance, it's not as if there are any kind of spikes on the cost side. In that ...
ROGER KAY Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
ALAN KAY I love being able to go on local flights when the weather is right. I've popped to the Isle of W...
JAY KAY I was the runt of the family, the shortest and the smallest, so I think they perceived me as the one...
KAY CANNON I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be t...
KAY CANNON I tell my kids and my grandkids, 'Never forget where you came from. Never forget your roots.'...
KAY ROBERTSON All the companies I've worked for have this deep problem of devolving to something like the hunt...
ALAN KAY Free speech works because most of us know when to keep our mouths shut.
KAY ANDERSON I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had...
ALAN KAY I am quite fussy about clothes.
JAY KAY There's a long record here of being wrong. There's a good reason for it. There are probably ...
DAVID KAY He said now you're gonna have colored baby chicks aren't you?. He made it a point to come get 'em. M...
KAY JOHNSTON My suspicions are that we'll find [things] in the chemical and biological areas. In fact, I think th...
DAVID KAY They'll be placed in an incubator until they get feathers and begin to fly. Then they'll be placed w...
KAY CRITES We think Linux is great for what it's good for, and Solaris is great for what it's good for, and we ...
BARBARA KAY Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social ...
ALAN KAY When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encycloped...
SARAH KAY In fact, Secretary Powell was not told that one of the sources he was given as a source of this info...
DAVID KAY The bullet never penetrated his skull,
JAY KAY A lot of it's been done at my studio at the house, but I also wanted to get out of the studio becaus...
JAY KAY being able to do things on the spot, being able to play your instrument, being able to be imaginativ...
JAY KAY This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions, ... I am extremely pleased to be...
JAY KAY Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have - so s...
KAY LYONS We have a hundred response vehicles either in the Baton Rouge area or en route.
KAY WILKINS But the most important thing about that story, which is not often told, is that as a result after th...
DAVID KAY Distance never seperates two hearts that really care, for our memories span the miles and in seconds...
KAY KNUDSEN Time goes by a lot slower when you miss the one you love
KAY KNUDSEN My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of b...
SARAH KAY Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I pr...
KAY CANNON (Cocaine is) as common as dirt,
ROBIN KAY But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both. I want to share every singl...
SARAH KAY Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shorelin...
SARAH KAY Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should eve...
KAY HAGAN My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her
SARAH KAY They're fearful that 'what if I can't survive financially? They haven't figured what they have in sa...
ANDREA KAY Science and math club help take pictures. We have a lot of collaboration between the community colle...
KAY DAVIS [Kay said the United States was not alone in its prewar interpretation of Iraq's weapons capability....
DAVID KAY There is a lot of proof [supporting the U.S. case against Iraq] -- the proof of failure to allow ins...
DAVID KAY Take your time. Put this together in a coherent fashion, so we have a true picture of this problem.
DAVID KAY Families need to have a time when they can cook together. They can eat at the table and you can look...
KAY ROBERTSON [Lawmakers blistered former FEMA chief Michael Brown for bungling the response to Hurricane Katrina ...
KAY GRANGER real danger [was] not so much that Saddam would pass along the secrets of weapons of mass destructio...
DAVID KAY This will be the racing competition to end all racing competitions. I am extremely pleased to be wor...
JAY KAY It's going to be very small ? about 10 or 12 pieces line.
JAY KAY sit at home, feet on the dog.
JAY KAY He does not want to give a statement against a family member, ... He has not given a formal statemen...
JAY KAY It was a realization that I hadn't gotten all the parts [of Iraq's nuclear program]. So there was a ...
DAVID KAY The insides have basically been gutted. The tile and flooring is all being redone, along with the ce...
HOWARD KAY I suspect there will be multiple reasons, and none of them the easy reason - someone simply distorte...
DAVID KAY We can be proud of our record as an international beacon of liberty. From fostering democracies in E...
KAY HUTCHISON I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.
KAY HUTCHISON People can't imagine an enemy that would cut someone's head off before a video camera and spread it ...
KAY HUTCHISON I am proud of the President's leadership. I am proud to support him in saying: Yes, we are going to ...
KAY HUTCHISON Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security syst...
KAY HUTCHISON 'Pitch Perfect' was my first screenplay, so it was like my little baby.
KAY CANNON The nice thing about Sun workstations is that the quality we build in extends the longevity of their...
BARBARA KAY We've treated them as an important ISV.
BARBARA KAY We welcome people considering Unix as an alternative for NT. We would like them to be sure to be run...
BARBARA KAY [Linux on SPARC architectures works in two ways in the educational market. The first case involves o...
BARBARA KAY We felt aggrieved at a few decisions, but we can't use that as an excuse. We have to learn how the r...
BEN KAY If you asked most of the Leicester boys, they wouldn't be 100% happy with the system in terms of pla...
BEN KAY I am sure all the senior players will feel a bit of added responsibility,
BEN KAY I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert.
BEN KAY The Type

Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken SARAH KAY Private Parts

The first love of my life never saw me naked - there was always a parent co...
SARAH KAY You are a woman. Skin and bones, veins and nerves, hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. No...
SARAH KAY Because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline,...
SARAH KAY You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space ...
SARAH KAY Such a little thing really, a kiss... most people don't give it a moment's consideration. They kiss ...
SARAH KAY The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you wer...
JAY KAY The best way to find a new job is to hold meaningful conversations with people. Talk about your care...
ANDREA KAY Don't rush to develop a new resume. That's the mistake almost everyone makes. Instead, reflect on wh...
ANDREA KAY Most people that I have met who've been in this situation, almost all of them have told me, after th...
ANDREA KAY She now has the luxury to explore her next step, because she got this package.
ANDREA KAY You should always be thinking, What if I lose my job today? Do an inventory of your skills and dream...
ANDREA KAY It seems people are dressing down in all areas of life, and the rules in the workplace are accommoda...
ANDREA KAY It has been casual, and it's going to be.
ANDREA KAY At first, when you hear of someone coming from Kentucky, and any time somebody rushes up to you and ...
ANN KAY They're vivacious and they're ambitious, and they're combing the town. They're getting a real bird's...
ANN KAY It has always been a standing joke in the family that I've never been invited to the queen's birthda...
BETTY KAY I lived in Meadowbrook. I went to church at Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. I went to school at...
KAY GRANGER We bought 10 years of freedom from the threat of nuclear holocaust in North Korea.
DAVID KAY The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Noth...
KAY RYAN Is this the first step in bringing in AMD systems to the Dell market?
ROGER KAY There are many units operating right now in Baghdad and it was a case -- genuine case -- of lack of ...
DAVID KAY It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation ...
ALAN KAY It (the computer) is a medium that can dynamically simulate the details of any other medium, includi...
ALAN KAY You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing '...
KAY CANNON There's something in her that responded to Manson. She was not a hippie, ... When she joined, Manson...
STEPHEN KAY You know that you are in love when the hardest thing to do is say good-bye!!
KAY KNUDSEN Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize...
KAY KNUDSEN What Apple's producing with iPod is the total experience with hardware, software and services. That'...
ROGER KAY When you notice yourself not feeling challenges, not feeling energized, and watching the clock, star...
ANDREA KAY It was a slug-out. Just punch for punch. We were fortunate to get the last punch in.
KAY YOW The charges are out there, and if there was misuse or distortion [of the Iraq intelligence], we need...
DAVID KAY with the aim of carrying out serious crimes together with other Islamic fundamentalist groups abroad...
KAY NEHM the intelligence community owes the president (an explanation) rather than the president owing the A...
DAVID KAY Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each...
KAY KNUDSEN That's not necessarily a bad thing. If you look at the auto industry, Detroit is in virtually the sa...
ROGER KAY My faith guides my life.
KAY HAGAN You need to do the little things in marriage to keep your marriage close and we always leave notes a...
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