Disembarkation At Marseilles Quotes & Sayings

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish, — Klaus Schwab

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity. — Seneca The Younger

Wells is teaching us to think. Burroughs and his lesser imitators are teaching us not to think. Of course, Burroughs is teaching us to wonder. The sense of wonder is in essence a religious state, blanketing out criticism. Wells was always a critic, even in his most wondrous and romantic tales.

And there, I believe, the two poles of modern fantasy stand defined. At one pole wait Wells and his honorable predecessors such as Swift; at the other, Burroughs and the commercial producers, such as Otis Adelbart Kline, and the weirdies, and horror merchants such as H.P. Lovecraft, and so all the way past Tolkien to today's non-stop fantasy worlders. Mary Shelley stands somewhere at the equator of this metaphor. — Brian W. Aldiss

Sex & Money
The Warden of the Order of Silence
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'...all the troubles of human life can be grouped under one or other of these words. — Russell Ash

And therefore think him as a serpents egg, which, hatched, would as its kind grow mischievous, and kill him in the shell — William Shakespeare

You have to apply yourself because you'll never get a better opportunity than the one you have right now. Having said that, people know by now if they like me or not. I don't need to prove anything. — Sophie Ellis-Bextor

The difference between your dreams and the reality is you control your dreams while reality control you. Dreams let you choose, thus always makes you happy while reality choose for you. — Nathanael Kanyinga

Yes, there was a sort of underground cult following, which came from nowhere, and grew, and grew. It was quite surprising to us all, because all of us had spent probably the previous five to ten years without it. So it was quite overwhelming. Overwhelming and humbling. — Michael Giles

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established. — Honore De Balzac

In WMDs, many poisonous assumptions are camouflaged by math and go largely untested and unquestioned. — Cathy O'Neil

Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air. — Tom Robbins