Kartleggeren Quotes & Sayings

the unknown breeds dragons in map margins — Lois McMaster Bujold

You hear it every four years, ... Scare the seniors, scare the seniors. — John McCain

got to be regular if you want to be happy, — Stephen King

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky ... — John Noble Wilford

[Texting] discourages thoughtful discussion or any level of detail. And the addictive problems are compounded by texting's hyperimmediacy. E-mails take some time to work their way through the Internet, through switches and routers and servers, and they require that you take the step of explicitly opening them. Text messages magically appear on the screen of your phone and demand immediate attention from you. Add to that the social expectation that an unanswered text feels insulting to the sender, and you've got a recipe for addiction: You receive a text, and that activates your novelty centers. You respond and feel rewarded for having completed a task (even though that task was entirely unknown to you fifteen seconds earlier). Each of those delivers a shot of dopamine as your limbic system cries out More! More! Give me more! — Daniel J. Levitin

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. — Theodor Adorno

A voice from other epochs belongs in a graveyard of other epochs. — H.P. Lovecraft

I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it. — Jo Brand

This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation. — Bill Frist

Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live — Gayle Forman