Architeuthis Quotes & Sayings

A plague of ennui afflicted London's many prophets. Warning signs were discarded, pamphlets pulped, megaphones thrown into cupboards. Those who could count questionable presences insisted that even since the Architeuthis had disappeared, something new had been walking. Something driven and intense and intent on itself. And since shortly after that, it had unfolded again and become something a little more itself, emerged from a pupa of unspecificity
into sentience, a obsessive moment of now that trod heavy in time.
No, they didn't really know what that mean, either, but that was their very strong impression. And it was freaking them out. — China Mieville

All we need to do is pay attention to ourselves and pay attention when somebody gives you a compliment based on something that you do naturally. Then that lets you know that that's your talent. I mean, talents come in so many different sizes, so many different colors, so many different ways. — Gabourey Sidibe

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him. — James Hudson Taylor

Prepare for the best and hope for the worst. — Prateek Gupta

life is simply a vacation from the infinite — Dean Cavanagh

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity. — Paulo Coelho

No sin, no crime, then extinction not earned. — Chuck Palahniuk

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable. — Sigmund Freud

Officers looked at the antique once-animals that eyed them back, at the no giant tank, at the nowhere anything so big and missing as Architeuthis could be. — China Mieville

The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness. — Arthur Smith

I'd like to think every director I've worked with has fallen in love with me, I know Dorothy Arzner did. — Joan Crawford

Creative activity is one of the few self rewarding activities. Being creative is like being in love! — Woodie Flowers

Our souls are full of Gothic arches, pinnacles, twisted traceries we cannot shake off, and of which Greek minds knew nothing. — Henryk Sienkiewicz