Alphas Quote by Gail Carriger

“Professor Lyall puffed out his cheeks in exasperation. It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every…

— Gail Carriger

“It happened in tiny increments as I remember. Mr Miller sat on the edge of the desk, which shifted slightly; the sudden exertion of…

— Simon Pegg

“He who could write so easily, who could spend a thousand words down along his plunging fingers on the green-rubber keyboard of his machine,…

— Laura Z. Hobson

“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the…

— Don DeLillo

“A very loud popping sound echoed across the seminar room. Each graduate student gazed in complete and utter shock as they realized that Professor…

— Sylvain Reynard

“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons…

— Jeffry R. Halverson

“It was a simple account of an incident from his childhood. At the time I recall that I wondered why he had written it…

— Robin Hobb

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Finally, spurred by the appetite to which he was indifferent, he took any one, read the printing on the parti-colored label of paper. He…

— James Gould Cozzens

“I take no pleasure in, and set no store by, the suggestion that Professor Wessely effectively hijacked the WHO logo to give credence to…

— Frederick R.P. Curzon

“The formalities necessary to obtain a work were quite complicated; the borrower's form had to contain the book's title, format, publication date, edition number,…

— Jules Verne

“He gazed intently at a sheet of paper, breath suspended, a word on the quivering point of his pen poised and waiting to fall.…

— Patricia McKillip