Constructional Engineering Quotes & Sayings

I was always the second heavy. — Broderick Crawford

He thought how the young are pierced by love, innocent bodies torn and ruined for no reason, save that it suited someone who held them dear. — Joe Hill

No other evil we know is faster than Rumor, thriving on speed and becoming stronger by running. Small and timid at first, then borne on a light air, she flits over ground while hiding her head on a cloud-top. — Virgil

I have a darker imagination than most people. — Edan Lepucki

She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams — Lauren Beukes

In 1962 the president of the American Historical Association, Carl Bridenbaugh, warned his colleagues that human existence was undergoing a "Great Mutation" - so sudden and so radical "that we are now suffering something like historical amnesia." He lamented the decline of reading; the distancing from nature (which he blamed in part on "ugly yellow Kodak boxes" and "the transistor radio everywhere"); and the loss of shared culture. — James Gleick

Stability. The best-case scenario is stability. Not happiness, not passion, not joy. Best-case scenario: a flaccid fucking life of stability. A living flatline. — Juliann Garey

The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. — Irvin D. Yalom

Pity party over?"
"Yeah, I think so."
"Good. Not good to wallow for too long. It's bad for the complextion. — Cynthia Hand

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor. — Ian Frazier

I'm a cat person. I have two giant cats [Harry and Arturo] that I call the small panthers. They're like 17 pounds each-they're big boys! Every photo on my phone is of them doing something funny. — Dave Franco

My understanding of environmentalism, of the things that radicalize people, of the ethics and effectiveness of different kinds of social protest have definitely become more nuanced and more informed, but they aren't much clearer. — Marshall Curry