Inapt Quotes & Sayings

I think you're asking too much. You know what I have? Toward this Pris android?"
"Empathy," he said.
"Something like that. Identification; there goes I. My god; maybe that's what'll happen. In the confusion you'll retire me, not her. And she can go back to Seattle and live my life. I never felt this way before. We are machines, stamped out like bottle caps. It's an illusion that I - I personally - really exist; I'm just representative of a type."
He could not help being amused; Rachael had become so mawkishly morose. "Ants don't feel like that," he said, "and they're physically identical."
"Ants. They don't feel period."
"Identical human twins. They don't - "
"But they identify with each other; I understand they have an empathic, special bond. — Philip K. Dick

The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ... avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries ... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow. — Evelyn Waugh

Well if you can't get what you love, You learn to love the things you've got .. If you can't be what you want, You learn to be the things you're not .. If you can't get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming — Passenger

Down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on. They protect them from falling
bricks, I guess. — Frank O'Hara

I felt love. Right there, in the kitchen. And I felt relief. — David Levithan

So he is. So that faint uneasiness lost. That faint hope. To one with so few occasions to feel. So inapt to feel. Asking nothing better in so far as he can ask anything than to feel nothing. Is it desirable? No. Would he gain thereby in companionability? No. Then let him not be named H. Let him be again as he was. The hearer. Unnamable. You. — Samuel Beckett

Here to second lives. May we all be forgiven for the inapt missteps of our past, and presented with new opportunities to accomplish the things that we've dreamed of doing. — Thomas DePrima

The soft smile on Tristan's face as he drove with his left hand while holding mine in his right screamed louder than any words ever could. He was mine. — Angela McPherson

The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the Aetherial Lights [stars] are to be shifted, so that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to the authority of the Holy Writ which many time: confirms the stability of the Earth (as we shall discuss more fully elsewhere). — Tycho Brahe

Reality never changes. It is our attitudes about reality that change. — Peter K. Fallon

Destiny is variable, not fixed; it is forever changing depending upon your free will to make choices for what you want your life to be. — Steven Redhead

There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind. — Francis Bacon

It's easy to say that if you were there you would have refused, that you would rather die than participate in the slaughter, but it all looks very different when it's real, when the moment comes to choose. — Ann Leckie

To understand how quickly we're cooking the planet, we need good data. To have good data, we need good satellites. — Jeff Goodell

Ah, but it is an interesting thing, that these things can so seldom be proved. If I were to perform some piece of, hrmf, magic for you, here in this room, you would claim a thousand ways it could have been done. Indeed, those ways might be exceedingly unlikely, but you would cling to them rather than accept the, mmn, the chance that magic, the eternal inexplicable, might be the true agent, and if you were strong enough in yourself, unafraid, unthreatened, here in your own chambers, well perhaps there would be no magic worked at all. It is a subjective force, you see, whereas the physical laws of the artificers are objective. A gear-train will turn without faith, but magic may not. And so, when your people demand, mmn, proof, there is none, but when you have forgotten and dismissed it, then magic creeps back into the gaps where you do not look for it. — Adrian Tchaikovsky

I always find that I'm at my best,' Eric said leadingly, 'when I'm at my worst. — Tonya Hurley

I'm a pointillist, just working my tiny little piece of the canvas. I'm not so good at perspective. — Garry Trudeau

It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if possible, since that's the lowest point in the world. — Avigdor Lieberman

I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Ansel Adams

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth. — Helen Caldicott

If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. — Zig Ziglar