Catchfire Quotes & Sayings

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds ... is not productive. — E. O. Wilson

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself. — Jo Nesbo

As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, we've become so removed from reality that we're starting to prefer artificiality. — Adam Leith Gollner

Just one question, you arrogant fucking cocksucker" said Locke. "I'll grant the Lamora part is easy to spot; the truth is, I didn't know about the apt translation when I took the name. I borrowed it from this old sausage dealer who was kind to me once, back in Catchfire before the plague. I just liked the way it sounded.
"But what the fuck" he said slowly, "ever gave you the idea that Locke was the first name I was actually born with? — Scott Lynch

Nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find? — Jeanne Moreau

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated. — Kofi Annan

I'm here, I said, but I knew, increasingly, I wasn't here, and I felt that able-to-weep-and-be-seen version of myself that I'd been with Ruth hardening again, like warm caramel left to cool. — Catherine Lacey

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense. — Ray Stevenson

Nobody had race savvy like Al Unser in his prime. — Mario Andretti

It is better to invert reality than to copy it. — Giuseppe Verdi

Who said love was reasonable? — Johanna Lindsey

The fame of his likes circulates briskly but soon grows heavy and stale; and as for history it will limit his life story to the dash between two dates. — Vladimir Nabokov