Ficase Quotes & Sayings

I get to shift multiple markets. I get to shift economies. It's extremely liberating. I breathe differently. — Shai Agassi

And just what do these words of punches and feints write down? The story of my family. — Davide Enia

Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I've been fortunate enough to be doing this for a great deal of years; if someone is thinking of me as they're writing something I take it as a huge compliment and hope that it's an interesting character at least. — Martin Starr

The engineered built environments or domesticated landscapes of certain Amazonian peoples were as impressive as any Egyptian pyramid, Mesopotamian city, or Chinese terrace-irrigiation system. In the Amazon, the transformation was driven by social demands: social group formation, domestic routines, territoriality, local environmental knowledge, gifting, and competitive feasting. — Clark L. Erickson

If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun. — Charles Caleb Colton

A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts. — Morris Kline

For the first time I saw Death as somebody to fear instead of the gangly sack of bones who ate all of my Cheetos and saved over my games on the Playstation. — Mercedes M. Yardley

Let me think ... I wonder if an anvil will drop like an apple? — Isaac Newton

They missed every time, and with that wary judgment that comes with experience, I watched the dirty snowballs coming at me, behind and in front, and, sick with wonder, kept walking slowly, determinedly, ready to parry a good hit before it struck. But none struck, and with a tolerant smile that was a superior lie, I walked on. — Sylvia Plath

I have a huge emotional attachment to characters I've created, especially the viewpoint characters. — George R R Martin