“Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.” – Maurice Maeterlinck, The Life of the Bee, On the Segregation of the Queen
“You speak of destiny as if it was fixed.” – Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
Answer me, you who believe that animals are only machines. Has nature arranged for this animal to have all the machinery of feelings only in order for it not to have any at all?” – Voltaire
MUSIC
BOOKS
weet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.” – James Taylor
“Everything possible to be believed is an image of truth.” – William Blake
“But I was sure of something, too: it’s a lot easier to be lost than found. It’s the reason we’re always searching, and rarely discovered — so many locks, not enough keys.” – Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” – Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
The clock indicates the moment-but what does eternity indicate?” – Paul Di Filippo, The Steampunk Trilogy
“Panic bells, it’s red alert/There’s something here/From somewhere else/The war machine springs to life/Opens up one eager eye/Focusing it on the sky/Where 99 red balloons go by.” – Nena, 99 Red Balloons
“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.”
“«I love both her and them.
I have come to understand
that she is what they are.
A woman accepts a man,
expecting that he will change.
A man takes a woman,
expecting that she will never change.
They are both disappointed.
Yet within this very disappointment
is the primal
source of all new men and all new women»”
― Bruce Sterling
“She has halls and she has castles, and the resonant Steam-Eagles,
Follow far on the directing of
her floating dove-like hand,
With a thunderous vapour trailing,
underneath the starry vigils,
So to mark upon the
blasted heaven, the measure of her land.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
If you want something you can have it,
but only if you want everything that goes with it,
including all the hard work and the despair,
and only if you’re willing to risk failure.” – Philip Pullman, Clockwork
“As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become
clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.” – Ernst Fischer
“Everything possible to be believed
is an image of truth.” – William Blake
“If you want something you can have it,
but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair,
and only if you’re willing to risk failure.” – Philip Pullman, Clockwork
“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of
one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard
“The unreal is more powerful
than the real.
Because nothing is as perfect
as you can imagine it.
Because it’s only intangibles,
ideas, concepts,
beliefs, fantasies that last.
Stone crumbles. Wood rots.
People, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought,
a dream, a legend,
they can go on and on.” –
Chuck Palahniuk
Excuse me, I have to recharge my flamethrower.” – Spaceballs
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
And rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll meet you there.”
—Rumi
The game is afoot.” – Arthur Conan Doyle,
Sherlock Holmes
"I like my coffee like I like my women;
creamy, sweet, and cold to the touch."
-Wendall Handbasket,
human necromancer and closet necrophiliac
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you,
too, can become great.
Mark Twain
“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
– Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
William James
"My philosophy of life is to do
what seems like a good idea at the time,
and do it as hard as possible.
It has never let me down."
“We often mingle with the world,
but our discovery is hidden away,
as it can be in a small compass, and no one suspects who or what we are.
We pass as tourists among
our fellow-men.” –
Mystery Airship Pilot 1858-1898
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