Gackiem Quotes & Sayings

Great as the differences are between the breeds of pigeons, I am fully convinced that the common opinion of naturalists is correct, namely, that all have descended from the rock-pigeon (Columba livia), including under this term several geographical races or sub-species, which differ from each other in the most trifling respects. — Charles Darwin

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence. — Tony Benn

I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. — Douglas Coupland

Some magic is so old, it's hardly magic anymore. — Terry Pratchett

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery. — Edward M. Purcell

She glances at each of her three companions, at the protective veneers they're all wearing, trying to mask the different lies they've told one another. The lies they're all continuing to try to maintain. Hoping these lies will carry them through the rest of their full and satisfying lives, despite the truths they've chosen not to tell the most important people in their worlds. — Chris Pavone

You see, I'm not ashamed to admit it. When you've passed eighty, you don't need to lie anymore, not to yourself nor to others, or find extenuating circumstances for what you have done. — Ahmet M. Rahmanovic

Patriotism is wanting what is best for your country. Nationalism is thinking your country is best, no matter what it does. — Sydney J. Harris

It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can 'take over' as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. — Margaret Mahy

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing. — David Petraeus

The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything. — Leonardo Da Vinci

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented. — Samuel Butler

Pride the first peer and president of hell. — Daniel Defoe

We're looking for places that aren't on a map. If we put them on one, then anybody could find them. — Pat Cadigan