Angel Exterminatus Quotes & Sayings

Yet she is happy -- is it happiness she feels? -- as she places her things in the cupboards and drawers. Her quills, stockings, shoes. The room is dotted by porcelain figures. Punctuated, she thinks. She picks one up, puts it down. The former wife's collection? Then opens a window to London bells and that green-silk scent of spring. And she sees now, here in this room, how badly she'd needed to leave. — Danielle Dutton

Our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter ... will travel effortlessly over the seas and under them and through the air with a minimum of danger and at great speeds, and will experience a lifespan far longer than ours, as disease yields and man comes to understand what causes him to age. — Lewis Strauss

you, the woman who justified my life and gave it meaning. — Paulo Coelho

The belief of God is not a matter of common sense, or logic, or argument, but of feeling. It is as impossible to prove the existence of God as to disprove it. I do not believe in God. I see no need of such an idea. It is incredible to me that there should be an after-life. I find the notion of future punishment outrageous and of future reward extravagant. I am convinced that when I die, I shall cease entirely to live; I shall return to the earth I came from. Yet I can imagine that at some future date I may believe in God; but it will be as now, when I don't believe in Him, not a matter of reasoning or of observation, but only of feeling. — W. Somerset Maugham

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. — Ann Petry

Baba Ayub didn't understand. Just as he didn't understand why a wave of something, something like the tail end of a sad dream, always swept through him whenever he heard the jingling, surprising him each time like an unexpected gust of wind. But then it passed, as all things do. It passed. — Khaled Hosseini

Since God is the foundation of my life, anything that streams from that can only be positive. — Ving Rhames

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. — James Purefoy

I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view. — Henry Rollins

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go. — Wayne McGregor

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. — Courtney Barnett

Hopefully, I can put the pictures they take of me up on my Facebook. — Jamal Idris

If your head explodes can I have your stuff? — Ilona Andrews

Does it make more sense to provide air conditioning or to limit CO2 emissions. I vote for more air conditioning in these susceptible regions. — Judith Curry