Cloud Atlas Abbess Quotes & Sayings

To love the game itself is a fine thing; it is loving the art you live by. — Walter Tevis

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse. — Michael Bloomberg

Wrong. Enemies don't fight with such determined passion. That kind of focus is reserved for friends at odds with one another.
pg 69 Tomas to Vlad — Heather Brewer

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature. — Maurice Maeterlinck

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface. — James Nicoll

You know, the immortality of the soul, free will and all that
it's all very amusing to talk about up to the age of twenty-two, but not after that. Then one ought to be giving one's mind to having fun without catching the pox, arranging one's life as comfortably as possible, having a few decent drawings on the wall, and above all writing well. That's the important thing: well-made sentences ... and then a few metaphors. Yes, a few metaphors. They embellish a man's existence. — Theophile Gautier

The French have only negative things to say about everything and everyone. — Eric Cantona

As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I think the issue to bring progressives together should be this most central of all issues - raising children to become responsible, empathetic adults. — George Lakoff