Illarionov Blog Quotes & Sayings

We're instant ambassadors. Just add robot body and voila! If they'd told us anything real, they might have had to kill us. — Brenda Cooper

Genius is the act of solving a problem in a way no one has solved it before. — Seth Godin

My past is too dark. You should find a nice girl and leave me alone. Now, get over here and take your pants off. -Pandora Black, billionaire dominatrix — Dom N. Atrix

I'm not arguing. I just think that it's pathetic that creeps always have to have someone else to blame. — Stieg Larsson

There was a feeling, not sudden, but complete, as though I had been given a small object to hold unseen in my hands. Precious as opal, smooth as jade, weighty as a river stone, more fragile than a bird's egg. Infinitely still, live as the root of Creation. Not a gift, but a trust. Fiercely to cherish, softly to guard. The words spoke themselves and disappeared into the groined shadows of the roof. — Diana Gabaldon

When you have a dream and are committed to achieving it, your life takes on new meaning. By unfolding a dream, you discover what makes you happy and brings you joy. — Lynn A. Robinson

There is a saying that when someone is struck down without warning that he "didn't know what hit him." It's a bit of a copout, providing the excuse that what happened wasn't the individual's fault at all. That it couldn't have been avoided and no one is to blame.

Frankly, that's just a bunch of hokey horseshit. — Pete Kahle

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be. — Martin Gore

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory. — Willard Van Orman Quine

Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny. — Alain De Botton

Howard, everything you've done in your life is wrong according to the stated ideals of mankind. And here you are. And somehow it seems a huge joke on the whole world. — Ayn Rand