Iveliana Quotes & Sayings

With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic: A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it? — Karen Thompson Walker

Throughout 150 years of the science of bacteriology, there is no evidence that one species of bacteria has changed into another ... Since there is no evidence for species changes between the simplest forms of unicellular life, it is not surprising that there is no evidence for evolution from prokaryotic [i.e., bacterial] to eukaryotic [i.e., plant and animal] cells, let alone throughout the whole array of higher multicellular organisms. — Alan H. Linton

The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for. — Josephine Winslow Johnson

There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting. — Keith Richards

If you doubted your fears instead of doubting your dreams, imagine how much in life you'd accomplish. — Joel Brown

Treat the world like a head. — Karl Pilkington

May's style was best described as Jem and the Holograms meets Rainbow Brite. — Seanan McGuire

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life, — Taylor Swift

The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity; their sense of fate grew correspondingly stronger. — Vasily Grossman

More dangers have deceived men than forced them. — Francis Bacon

Amazon took the idea of a man inside the computer and created a service with the same name. A person or company can present a task to the Mechanical Turk Web site, and hordes of invisible people will chip away at it, doing work that's eerily human but requires no personal interaction and very little money. These hardworking people are like the little man inside the chess computer: you can't see them, but they're doing all the work. — Seth Godin

Goddamn embarrassing what a civilian you've become, man. — Dennis Lehane

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience. — Bill Gates

Leadership is leading the way, guiding the way, living the way ... — Jayce O'Neal

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways. — June Jordan