Juan Sebastian Elcano Quotes & Sayings

If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine that has consciousness. And if that happens, that is a road to planetary disaster because everything we've thought about ourselves, since the Bronze Age, the Bible, all of that will be gone. — E.L. Doctorow

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain. — Susan Sontag

When I obey a rule, I do not choose. I obey the rule blindly . — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Before I could ask, he caught sight of the garment in my hand. "In the name of bleeding Jesus, what are you sewing? Is that my shirt?" "It is, and I must say, it is in a deplorable state. But at least the material is quite good and will stand up to proper mending. Unfortunately, mending is not one of my skills," I said, holding up the shirt. Somehow I had managed to attach it to my own skirt, and I took up scissors to snip it free. — Deanna Raybourn

The two most important rules in a gunfight are: always cheat and always win. — Clint Smith

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men. — Nancy Friday

There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people. — Thomas Jefferson

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself! — Mickey Mantle

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude. — Charles Robert Maturin

The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want. — Scott Adams

One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies. — Joseph Addison

A Japanese woman we'd met in Paris came to the apartment yesterday and spent several hours explaining our appliances. The microwave, the water kettle, the electric bathtub: everything blinks and bleeps and calls out in the middle of the night. I'd wondered what the rice maker was carrying on about, and Reiko told us that it was on a timer and simply wanted us to know that it was present and ready for duty. That was the kettle's story as well, while the tub was just being an asshole and waking us up for no reason. — David Sedaris