Forrest Taft Quotes & Sayings

If the original Facebook was the first five minutes [of a conversation] and the stream was the next 15, what I want to show you today is the rest-the next few hours of a deep engaging conversation. — Mark Zuckerberg

We all scooted closer on our stools, like it was story-time in some morbid kindergarten. — Ransom Riggs

A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second. — Ahmed Zewail

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. — Jim Harrison

While illusion distorts reality for a moment, error can reign for a millennia in abstractions, throw its iron yoke over whole peoples and stifle the noblest impulses of humanity; those it cannot deceive are left in chains by those it has, by its slaves. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The income ratio of the one-fifth of the world's population in the wealthiest countries to the one-fifth in the poorest went from 30 to 1 in 1960 to 74 to 1 in 1995.3 The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half that amount we could provide clean water, adequate diets, sanitation services, and basic education to every person on the planet.4 — John Perkins

In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I'd given up on writing after multiple rejections for my first novel, and I was starting to consider a career in publishing instead, but Seven Dials gave me such a strong idea for a setting that I couldn't resist picking up my pen again. — Samantha Shannon

Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height. — William Morris

I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot absorb that much madness and not be influenced by it. That is why the children of survivors are so tragic. I see them in school. They don't know how — Elie Wiesel

V: After having sucked all the good out of him you duck him away like a... like a banana skin. — Samuel Beckett

Now when naturalists observe a close agreement in numerous small details of habits, tastes and dispositions between two or more domestic races, or between nearly-allied natural forms, they use this fact as an argument that all are descended from a common progenitor who was thus endowed; and consequently that all should be classed under the same species. The same argument may be applied with much force to the races of man. — Charles Darwin

Practice makes perfect, and allowing your fingers to practice what your head just learned is a surefire way to integrate this into your knowledge. — Erich Andreas

The world under your feet is changing & you never noticed, it's on you. If you're changing & the world failed to notice, it's not on you... — Assegid Habtewold

Language does not leave fossils, at least not until it has become written. — Richard Brautigan