L. Sprague de Camp quote: "In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies."

It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child is ...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle ...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the count...
L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that...
SPRAGUE GRAYDEN

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE

I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time.
SPRAGUE GRAYDEN

We are having some anniversary specials right now. It's something to be able to be involved, looking...
BONNIE SPRAGUE

We stayed pretty steady. We were very profitable.
BONNIE SPRAGUE

That gymnasium was packed to capacity.
BONNIE SPRAGUE

It was really hard to convince the Tribal Council to spend $500 on bingo equipment.
BONNIE SPRAGUE

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends.
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun, Till his keen eye along the sheet has run; The blooming daugh...
CHARLES SPRAGUE

I usually eat six times a day, small meals. For breakfast, an egg and a corn tortilla, salsa and cil...
SPRAGUE GRAYDEN

Yes, social friend, I love thee well, In learned doctor's spite; Thy clouds all other clouds dispel,...
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Behold! in Liberty's unclouded blaze, We lift our heads, a race of other days.
CHARLES SPRAGUE

The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down, To know what last new folly fills the town; Lively or...
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends
CHARLES SPRAGUE

Everybody is talking about the new 'Star Wars' stuff. They actually have a couple of deluxe costumes...
DOUG SPRAGUE

The companies are seeing that kids want to be the really cool thing they see at the movie. Batman, '...
DOUG SPRAGUE

It used to be that a patient would come in and we would have to track down their paper file. If they...
DEBBIE SPRAGUE

They are responding well to electronic simulation. They're able to multi-task.
DEBBIE SPRAGUE

The only game Godwin Heights lost (to Wyoming Lee in late December) they got beat up inside. So mayb...
GARY SPRAGUE

I think SVPA is ahead of the pack.
BRIAN SPRAGUE

Secretly, I'm a real big nerd. I'd rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood...
SPRAGUE GRAYDEN

The game was close through the first half, but everything just went our way in the third.
GARY SPRAGUE

My assistant coach said coming into the game that if we could hold Laser to 15 points or less, we'd ...
GARY SPRAGUE

I don't know. I'd rather ask him about hitting. He was one of the best hitters of all time.
ED SPRAGUE

That was our plan with him. He is the one guy in their lineup who you don't want to let beat you. He...
ED SPRAGUE

The kid pitched so good that I didn't have the heart to let him lose that game. Stuff-wise, he was s...
ED SPRAGUE

Bases loaded with nobody out, I liked our chances. We just didn't convert.
ED SPRAGUE

He's definitely on the radar. You lead the fifth-best conference in the country in home runs, you ge...
ED SPRAGUE

It's our contention that, in an effort to stop throwing the ball, it got away from him and hit (the ...
ED SPRAGUE

That's when I thought this kid had a chance to be all right. That's something guys learn as they're ...
ED SPRAGUE

Last year, he worried about a lot of things he couldn't control. This year, he worries about things ...
ED SPRAGUE

He's really pitched very well. His first outing was dominating. He didn't get a decision, but he pit...
ED SPRAGUE

Any time you've got a guy who pitched every Friday back to pitch every Friday again, I think that's ...
ED SPRAGUE

They're going to have to wrestle well, but they all could place. Right now, they're in the top 32 in...
MAT SPRAGUE

I would have rather had a league title for the school and the kids, but it's an accomplishment I'm p...
MAT SPRAGUE

It's going to be a stretch, but if the fall on their face here and we wrestle well, we can beat them...
MAT SPRAGUE

The stress is out of the way, we're putting the pedal to the metal for state and district.
MAT SPRAGUE

A lot of teams were using this as a tune-up for state and district, but we were putting pressure on ...
MAT SPRAGUE

We want to promote it as much as we can. This week is for the kids, they work hard and they have a b...
MAT SPRAGUE

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.
MAT SPRAGUE

It was a huge learning experience. It was great practice for a two-day meet in terms of holding thei...
MAT SPRAGUE

I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historic...
CANDACE CAMP

My mother was a reporter, and though she quit when they had kids, she still loved it. She told me ab...
CANDACE CAMP

The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I ma...
CANDACE CAMP

I've been acting since second grade, and I just remember when I first moved to New York and I wa...
ANNA CAMP

The way the Facebook network is set up, it's not as suitable for content discovery. Twitter is b...
GARRETT CAMP

I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will...
GARRETT CAMP

If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon ...
GARRETT CAMP

The bigger a company gets, the more people are involved in decisions, the slower decisions get made....
GARRETT CAMP

I like to say StumbleUpon provides a personal tour of the Internet. The responses are more targeted ...
GARRETT CAMP

If the founders of a start-up are considering selling it, I'd advise them to consider the synerg...
GARRETT CAMP

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The I...
GARRETT CAMP

If you don't find a new website when you Stumble, we've failed.
GARRETT CAMP

Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850...
GARRETT CAMP

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company g...
GARRETT CAMP

Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
GARRETT CAMP

I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any edi...
CANDACE CAMP

'The Marrying Season' is the final book in the 'Legend of St. Dwynwen' series, and i...
CANDACE CAMP

There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. Th...
CANDACE CAMP

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
DALTON CAMP

Serving in Congress is the great honor of my professional life. I am deeply grateful to the people o...
DAVE CAMP

What the families of these boys are doing is similar to sending your kid off to Europe,
BILL CAMP

What happens is that during each project people get excited about the next project, and they want to...
BILL CAMP

We try to make things happen the best we can,
BILL CAMP

Of the original 12, eight decided to return and bring a friend or family with them, ... The growth h...
BILL CAMP

If you go there, you'd know why we do this,
BILL CAMP

I think the reason our mission work has grown is because of the 'prayer principle.' If we think we s...
BILL CAMP

I don't see an end in sight, ... I see us coming here as long as we can.
BILL CAMP

Faith is what brings many here to work, ... But we don't force the faith on anyone.
BILL CAMP

And this is what I love about doing this, ... Going somewhere and actually witnessing a difference b...
BILL CAMP

Just the amount of time it takes to fly to France, or to Spain, is what it would take to come down h...
BILL CAMP

It was really a job. This is fun here.
BUD CAMP

There's no two alike. That's what's so intriguing about it.
BUD CAMP

We didn't have any idea. Zero.
BUD CAMP

This just kept growing and growing and growing until we got the design we wanted.
BUD CAMP

We went from retirement to work.
BUD CAMP

When you talk to the person, you're making it for them, not for a shop. We've met some of the most a...
BUD CAMP

We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be hit by ...
JIM CAMP

I'm a huge fan of Jessica Lange and 'American Horror Story.' I would love to work with h...
ANNA CAMP

The tax code should not hinder our efforts to rebuild in the Gulf Coast and care for those hit by th...
DAVE CAMP

I think it's great that we have more upscale projects.
AMY CAMP

We had 20 locations last year. We ran out of soup everywhere, spoons, everything. We were preparing ...
AMY CAMP

If you want to cover all of them, it'd be in your best interests to start at noon. That's a lot of s...
AMY CAMP

We had some significant repair bills last year and we ended up replacing one truck due to an acciden...
JOE CAMP

There are many sacred places to your nation and to our nation. Thirty nations consider that mountain...
CARTER CAMP

The world has lost a truly great man. The Pope lived his faith through constantly reaching out, demo...
DAVE CAMP

I wanted to come in and 'stir the pot' a little. I think that is what I have done, and I think it ha...
DAN CAMP

I know the journey seems so long
You feel you're walking on your own
But there has never...
JEREMY CAMP

Along the way, my Heavenly Father has taught me that the fruit of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, pat...
JEREMY CAMP

When we really started doing this in August 2004, we had this format. We we're looking for a differe...
JERRY CAMP

We are beginning to wrap up the Main Street improvements, putting in the new retaining wall on Jacks...
DAN CAMP

The location could not be worse.
CARTER CAMP

We do not have assurances that there will be a breakthrough.
DONALD CAMP

The king should reach out to the political parties to restore democratic institutions.
DONALD CAMP

We have a tremendous amount to do. We have done some positive things, but we still have real work in...
DAN CAMP

We will probably need a bond issue do deal with our roads. It is a issue that we will have to deal w...
DAN CAMP

Well, I'm from the South originally. I grew up in South Carolina definitely learning about manne...
ANNA CAMP

Jesus of Nazareth always comes asking disciples to follow him--not merely "accept him," not merely "...
LEE CAMP

When the scenes are written really great, we as actors try not to mess them up by getting in the way...
BILL CAMP

Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting...
BILL CAMP

I learn about history and religion and politics. It keeps me tuned in. If I hear something on the ne...
BILL CAMP

To be a police officer in New York requires so much more than just we, as a citizen, need to walk ar...
BILL CAMP

There are wonderful opportunities for students instead of getting caught in the bubble of college li...
HEATHER CAMP

We have some incredible trips.
HEATHER CAMP

It doesn't look like it's going to affect us. Even if somebody goes over to Hawaii and plays in Turt...
JASON CAMP

I would think once it's out there, my next 30 days would be talking to various suitors.
JASON CAMP

If it made sense for Bonita Bay, we would have some of the players come and check it out and have th...
JASON CAMP

I'd hate to paint with a broad brush, but many Democrats don't feel that we have a crisis in...
DAVE CAMP

I'm much more interested in raising revenues for businesses than for the government.
DAVE CAMP

Very mild. Very, very mild over previous years. And that doesn't include any overtime costs or any o...
JOE CAMP

We decided a long time ago that we were going to stay away from that.
JOE CAMP

The first order of business was getting the rights cleaned up. So, we went through expedited arbitra...
JOE CAMP

We spent about a year negotiating with Hollywood. Wound up negotiating real seriously with three stu...
JOE CAMP

The first Benji came out of a shelter and, without a whole lot of mission and passion attached -- ju...
JOE CAMP

By lowering that bar and making kids believe that it's OK to do or say anything you want to at any g...
JOE CAMP

And I said, 'No, can't do it.'
JOE CAMP

There's no two alike. That's what's so intriguing about it.
BUD VAN CAMP

We didn't have any idea. Zero.
BUD VAN CAMP

When you talk to the person, you're making it for them, not for a shop. We've met some of the most a...
BUD VAN CAMP

It was really a job. This is fun here.
BUD VAN CAMP

This just kept growing and growing and growing until we got the design we wanted.
BUD VAN CAMP

We went from retirement to work.
BUD VAN CAMP

Just hold on.
RANDOLPH RANDY CAMP

Where's the sun? Sometimes I never see the sun.
RANDOLPH RANDY CAMP

Some day soon I'm gonna get away from here.
RANDOLPH RANDY CAMP

Crystal, do you like being a white girl?
RANDOLPH RANDY CAMP

If I don't care what toothpaste you use, then why should I care who's in your bed?
RANDOLPH RANDY CAMP

I remember being out in the field with my company in Vietnam when Nov. 10 rolled around. After we ha...
MARINE COLDICK CAMP

It's a long and proud history, the history of the Corps, and I've tried to do my part to preserve it...
MARINE COLDICK CAMP

For me, this is the dream job. Meaningful work for an institution I care about. What more could you ...
MARINE COLDICK CAMP

Losing your mind is just like ruining a flower just have to keep plucking at their petals
L

Manipulation and pretentiousness, the dead can't do that.
L

Your cynical ways define your soul as you treat the people who love you with nothing more than utter...
L

Having many friends doesn't guarantee that you might still feel lonely
L

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
MADAME DE STA&EUML;L

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction...
MME DE STA&EUML;L

You know, we worry about the Bomb, a thought interceded, and yet just look around: there are million...
ETIENNE DE L'AMOUR

Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
NINON DE L'ENCLOS

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
L. L. NASH

Parents send their children to college either because they went to college, or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L. L. HENDERSON

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.
L. L. HENDREN

Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too dista...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

If I could record them and transmit them to the present age, they would constitute nothing more, now...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

You're doubtless well aware that most of the great hypnotic patients wind up referring to themselves...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and ...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

Brunettes are full of electricity.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is ...
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

I am a man who knows nothing, guesses sometimes, finds frequently and who's always amazed.
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE

They make much of our drinking, but never think of our thirst.
L. SCHEFER

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.
L. ESTRANGE

The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything ...
L. ESTRANGE

Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
L HILL

Dreams are stages where lies and truths intertwine in and endless dance. It is in the waking world t...
L. FILLOON

Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentia...
L. SWETENHAM

Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.
L. CARTE

Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots.
L BERTSCH

Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only to be taught; the former are ...
L. ESTRANGE

We are all related because our DNA is the same with our very first mother (Eve).
METTRIE L.

Undesirable behaviors can be changed positively by using behavior modification.
METTRIE L.

Love conquers everything even karma.
METTRIE L.

Life is full of endless possibilities.
METTRIE L.

The true purpose of pain in one's life is to grow strong--in faith, spirit, and emotions.
METTRIE L.

Everyone wants to be wanted and if all people wait for someone else to invest in them, the world wil...
LAURA L.

You’re the purest, most genuine thing that ever happened to me.- Caleb
L. DUARTE

You can’t just bring a regular human here! What if the girl runs and tells the whole world on that...
L. TAYLOR

I’m not good with these types of girls, I had thought as Avena lay there in the middle of the bed,...
L. JAYNE

I think that the play is doing good work. And the volunteers, not only the audience, have grown from...
BOB L.

That's our policy. We're not looking for fame. Our aim here is to carry a message.
BOB L.

We get standing ovations wherever we go. If this didn't work, I would have quit long ago.
BOB L.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.
METTRIE L.

Everyone has psychic abilities. It's just a matter of tapping into it.
METTRIE L.

There is a special bond between twin soul mates--unconditional love, respect for each other, bringin...
METTRIE L.

It's no coincidence that every person have more than 1 soulmates.
METTRIE L.

In the beginning, there was silence.
L. PENELOPE

Parce qu'il y a certaines habitudes qui deviennent vitales. Aussi futiles soient elles, elles devien...
CAMILLE L.

Mais ça veut dire quoi d'abord "mon livre", ton livre ? Que tu l'as acheté ? Qu'on te l'a donné ?...
MéLISSANDRE L.

I wasn’t brave, or strong, or badass. And all those quirky lines I fed you? A foolish attempt at s...
L. DUARTE

I was his as if I had been born for that very purpose, as if my body were a puppet, and he was the p...
L. DUARTE

Dreaming is good. But working to make those dreams come true is even better.
JOEL L.

We were skin to skin.
Mouth over mouth.
Mingled breaths.
Tangled bodies.
Heartbe...
L. DUARTE

Film allows you to see life differently, or see life you've never experienced, ... When it does that...
L. SPARKS

The fair has worked hard to provide a family atmosphere over the past 10 years, ... We encourage eve...
L. SPARKS

The addition of Beanstalk to the Omnicom network will further expand the services that we offer clie...
L. HARRISON

It would have been easy simply to take another job somewhere else. But that wasn't Bernie Marcus. He...
L. HARRISON

What enables one person to launch a business at fifty when other people, faced with being laid off, ...
L. HARRISON

'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him
L. ESTRANGE

We make mistakes the gratuitous blessings of heaven for the fruits of our industry
L. ESTRANGE

It is not the place, not the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
L. ESTRANGE

Of all injustice, that is the greatest which goes under the name of law; and of all sorts of tyranny...
L. ESTRANGE

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

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L. Sprague de Camp

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

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