Heptapod B Quotes & Sayings

The idea of thinking in a linguistic yet nonphonological mode always intrigued me. I had a friend born of deaf parents; he grew up using American Sign Language, and he told me that he often thought in ASL instead of English. I used to wonder what it was like to have one's thoughts be manually coded, to reason using an inner pair of hands instead of an inner voice. With Heptapod B, I was experiencing something just as foreign: my thoughts were becoming graphically coded. There were trance-like moments during the day when my thoughts weren't expressed with my internal voice; instead, I saw semagrams with my mind's eye, sprouting like frost on a windowpane. As — Ted Chiang

The fenced-in dog barks at the one running free. — Marty Rubin

'Uncharted' is the best job I've ever had. Film, television, whatever - it's without doubt the best. It's changed my life. — Nolan North

Insanity is in the eyes of the beholder. So I will continue to live my personal folly. — Paulo Coelho

Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure would seem to have been almost custom-designed for the case of tattoos. — David Foster Wallace

We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism.. — Steven Biko

lunches at which everyone segregated themselves by rank and caste - — Hanya Yanagihara

An outcast has all possibilities of greatness..
Rejected, he has nothing to lose while using his talents..
Competing with his own talents and only against himself... — Abha Maryada Banerjee

One of the terrible things about doing movies is that the writers never consider the temperature outside. — Jamie Farr

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster. — Al Franken

You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!' ... It's the same with motorcycles. — William Lucking

The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men. — Siri Hustvedt

When you encounter unpleasantness from the human population, try to keep in mind that you will be able to dance on their graves long after they're dead. It's a cheering thought. - from The Guide for the Newly Undead. — Molly Harper