8designers Quotes & Sayings

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect."
"I don't deny that they were imperfect," Julian said in a distant voice. "I'm not uncritical of the Secular Ancients, Adam. They had all sorts of vices, and they committed one sin for which I can never bring myself to entirely forgive them."
"What sin is that?"
"They evolved into us," he said. — Robert Charles Wilson

I really like my life right now. I have friends around me all the time. I've started painting more. I've been working out a lot. I've started to really take pride in being strong. I love the album I made. I love that I moved to New York. So in terms of being happy, I've never been closer to that. — Taylor Swift

The history of photography needs clearing out. It needs something else now. Because photography always acknowledged there were cameras before photography. — David Hockney

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another. — Voltaire

There are very few really stark black and white stories. — Jim Lehrer

No sex is wrong, if there's love in it. — Marilyn Monroe

Real date or not, that was rude, and disrespectful, and I was ten seconds away from telling those girls that he was a post-op-transsexual and all his parts were' not in working order. — Chris Cannon

Diverse, horizontal social networks, in Ruef's analysis, were three times more innovative than uniform, vertical networks. In groups united by shared values and long-term familiarity, conformity and convention tended to dampen any potential creative sparks. — Steven Johnson

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds. — Suetonius

As you grow older and young people come up to you with their history books, you realize that some of the things I have been able to do have been impactful. But for me, I try to keep everything in perspective and stay humble. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee