Boqs Quotes & Sayings

There was absolutely no getting turned on by porn stars purposefully trying to shock and intimidate for no apparent reason. — Mia Sheridan

Alien eyes watched the strange metal object as it floated upward. There was blood in the water. Their home had been invaded. They would respond. — Mira Grant

THEY bury their dead in vaults, above the ground. These vaults have a resemblance to houses - sometimes to temples; are built of marble, generally; are architecturally graceful and shapely; they face the walks and driveways of the cemetery; and when one moves through the midst of a thousand or so of them and sees their white roofs and gables stretching into the distance on every hand, the phrase 'city of the dead' has all at once a meaning to him. — Mark Twain

At home, my mother dabbed at her brow with a wet flannel she kept in the fridge for that purpose. — Peter Goldsworthy

No sound here but the river lapping hungry at the edge of the forest, the sigh of the wind in the leaves and the rasping drone of insects. — Caitlin R. Kiernan

Then all this earth shines like one house. — Ramana Maharshi

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth. — Daphne Gottlieb

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents. — Geena Davis

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am. — Kiki Dee

Stalking is an underrated startup strategy. — Linda Rottenberg

There was a term some of Clive's friends used, the ones who did a lot of computer gaming - "the uncanny valley." It was a psychological threshold where things looked very human, but still weren't quite human enough. It was why some mannequins were creepy and others weren't, and CGI monsters looked better than CGI people. — Peter Clines

For a man, the optimal evolutionary strategy is to disseminate his genes as widely as possible, given his few minutes (or, alas, seconds) of investment in each encounter. It all makes simple evolutionary sense, since a woman invests a good deal of time and effort -a nine month long, risky, strenuous pregnancy, in each offspring. Naturally she has to be very discerning in her choice of sexual partners. — Abhijit Naskar

Instead, what I was beginning to understand was that however things unfolded from here on, whatever the next chapter was, my life could never be the sum of one circumstance. It would be determined, as it had always been, by my willingness to put one foot in front of the other, moving forward, come what may. — Liz Murray

If you're an American kid, you can't help but be influenced by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and the Rolling Stones because they're always on the radio. — Chris Cornell