Homunculi Quotes & Sayings

When I'm late, and I'm late everywhere I go, it's not out of disrespect for where I'm going but out of respect for where I've been. — Arno Minkkinen

We live without feeling the country beneath our feet,
our words are inaudible from ten steps away.
Any conversation, however brief,
gravitates, gratingly, toward the Kremlin's mountain man.
His greasy fingers are thick as worms,
his words weighty hammers slamming their target.
His cockroach moustache seems to snicker,
and the shafts of his high-topped boots gleam.
Amid a rabble of scrawny-necked chieftains,
he toys with the favors of such homunculi.
One hisses, the other mewls, one groans, the other weeps;
he prowls thunderously among them, showering them with scorn.
Forging decree after decree, like horseshoes,
he pitches one to the belly, another to the forehead,
a third to the eyebrow, a fourth in the eye.
Every execution is a carnival
that fills his broad Ossetian chest with delight. — Osip Mandelstam

The Homunculi may have started the war, but we were the ones who carried it out. — Hiromu Arakawa

Goons were the lowest sort of homunculi, only superior to zombies. — Lita Burke

Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears. — Josh Kilmer-Purcell

It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and there. But never really here. And never really there. — Paul Auster

Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress. — Daniel Dennett

I think because we could do it biologically and have our own child we decided to try this. — Cheryl Tiegs

She gave herself over to the sensations of the kiss, let it become the whole of her universe, and knew finally how it felt to be enough for someone. — Kristin Hannah

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them. — James Jeans

The value of time, that is of being a little ahead of your opponent, often provides greater advantage than superior numbers or greater resources. — Sun Tzu

Age doesn't bother me. So many of my heroes were older guys. It's the lack of years left that weighs far heavier on me than the age that I am. — David Bowie