Gwendys Magic Feather Quotes & Sayings

When they first developed the organs of exploration, there was no there there. So they built timid, stupid machines and hurled them into the airless void to report back. Then they built idiot phone exchanges and put them in orbit to fill the void with chatter. Obsessed with biological replicators, they ignored the most interesting corners of the solar system and focused on dull, arid Mars. They periodically scurried up above the atmosphere and hunkered down in tunnels on Luna or ventured on expedition to domes on Mars, and they died in significant numbers before the end, simply because canned primates couldn't thrive in vacuum or survive solar flares. — Charles Stross

The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets-anything that might throw light upon the past had been systemically altered. — George Orwell

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable. — Julian Baggini

Drinking is not a spectator sport. — Jim Brosnan

I don't think we have any choice. I think we have an obligation to change the rules, to raise the bar, to play a different game, and to play it better than anyone has any right to believe is possible. — Seth Godin

When you're an actor working in the theater, you would never say anything to the writer, never alter the dialogue, never dream to ask for changes. — Jill Hennessy

Joy is not something you look for, it is simply something you have to choose to apply. — Rene Gaudette

this book. I will try to repay all of you with sustenance — Amy Tan

I'm not saying I never cared, because when I was younger, yes, I cared. I cared too much and I was hurt because of it, but not anymore. In recent years, I embrace me, exactly as I am, — Lindy Zart

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror. — Eliot Spitzer

Don't make promises you can't keep — Elizabeth Hoyt

Sometimes, a little tweak on the way you think and react is the best solution to some marital issues. — Michelle Audet