Le Monde Des Quotes & Sayings

The composition of our society has been changing. We [world] are becoming a more urban population. Mega-cities, those with more than 10 million residents, are booming. — Hari Sreenivasan

My pappy told me, 'When you read horror, it's best to read with the lights on.' I found it helps for most other kinds of books too. — P.K. Vandcast

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
Heaven and Earth out of their places,
That in the same calamity
Brother and brother, friend and friend,
Family and family,
City and city may contend. — William Butler Yeats

Causes of Variability - Effects of Habit and the use and disuse of Parts - Correlated Variation - Inheritance - Character of Domestic Varieties - Difficulty of distinguishing between Varieties and Species - Origin of Domestic Varieties from one or more Species - Domestic Pigeons, their Differences and Origin - Principles of Selection, anciently followed, their Effects - Methodical and Unconscious Selection - Unknown Origin of our Domestic Productions - Circumstances favourable to Man's power of Selection. — Charles Darwin

[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining. — Lester Del Rey

When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me. — Judd Apatow

'Cinderella' the cartoon scared me. I watched the bits with the mice, and the scenes with the stepsisters ripping her dress apart scared me. Cinderella was never even my favorite character in 'Into the Woods.' — Anna Kendrick

Whatever depends on conditions
Is empty of inherent existence,
What excellent instruction could there be,
More amazing than these words? — Tsongkhapa

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance

Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other. — Margaret Cavendish