Sharon Lee quotes

“Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.”
-- Sharon Lee

Source : Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (2010). “The Dragon Variation”, p.10, Baen Publishing Enterprises

#Return Quotes #Charm Quotes #Brevity Quotes

“Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.”
-- Sharon Lee

Source : Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (2007). “Agent of Change”, p.29, Baen Publishing Enterprises

#Tails Quotes #World Quotes #Teeth Quotes

“The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.”
-- Sharon Lee

#Growth Quotes #Moments Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“Who is old enough to ask, is old enough to know.”
-- Sharon Lee

Source : Sharon Lee, Steve Miller (2013). “Necessity's Child”, p.82, Baen Publishing Enterprises

#Enough Quotes

“The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s also important to empathize with and inspire your audience so they feel you’re treating them less like a faceless user and more like a human being.”
-- Sharon Lee

#Encouragement Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Design Quotes

“Trust God in the dark until the light returns.”

“Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.”

Source : Song: True Believer, 2008

“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “A Reading Diary”, p.66, Vintage Canada

“Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.”

“Charm is that extra quality that defies description.”

“Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.”

“Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you can't resist charm.”

Source : "Fictional character: Irène". "Priceless", www.imdb.com. 2006.

“The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.”

Source : Letter to Sophie Germain, April 30, 1807.

“It was almost funny. Life seemed downright accidental in its brevity, and death a punch line to a lousy joke.”

“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?”