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Murray Leinster Quotes

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

Facts are facts! And if they're impossible, they're still facts!

Murray Leinster
Facts, Impossible, Stills
"The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 9, 1964.

Adventure is the point where you toss your life on the scales of chance and wait for the pointer to stop.

Murray Leinster
Adventure, Waiting, Toss

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

Murray Leinster
Insanity, Cosmos, Symptoms
"The Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, Chapter 4, 1964.

Children and barbarians have clear ideas of justice due to them, but no idea at all of justice due from them.

Murray Leinster
Children, Ideas, Justice
Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.141, Baen Publishing Enterprises

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

Murray Leinster
Appreciation, Men, Doe
Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, p.332, Baen Publishing Enterprises

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don't you ever read about politics?

Murray Leinster
Nonsensical, Happenings
"Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 22, 1964.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

Murray Leinster
Thinking, Firsts, Cooperation
Murray Leinster (2002). “Med Ship”, Baen Books

It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

Murray Leinster
Artist, Peanuts, Outrage
"Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 21, 1964.

The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.

Murray Leinster
People, Secret, Quarrels
Murray Leinster (2007). “The Planet Explorer”, p.85, Wildside Press LLC

He had a stellar talent. I not only lost a contemporary in the death of Robert E. Howard. The world lost a writer of extraordinary gifts.

Murray Leinster
World, Talent, Lost

There is never a rational reason for a man to rejoice that a certain pretty girl exists and that he has found her. The experience, however, is universal.

Murray Leinster
Girl, Men, Reason
"Time Tunnel". Book by Murray Leinster, ch. 2, p. 19, 1964.

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