Magister Hydraulics Quotes & Sayings

Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer games and online services (like ones that let you check stocks) have enabled Low-Impact listeners to endure family phone calls much longer than in the past. Dangers include mouse clicks, heavy typing, or a sudden loud buzzer that goes off when you have finished Boggle. — Sandra Tsing Loh

I have a bad case of awkward as fuck — Jamie McGuire

If at the end of our time together you find yourself walking out with just what you walked in with, you will have wasted your time. — Harrison Owen

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don't even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I'm being upstaged by a dead pig. — Suzanne Collins

Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young ... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them. — Margaret Mead

What is literature, really? Boiled down to a single sentence, I'd say it's this: an endless conversation about what it means to be human. And to read literature is to engage in that conversation. — Nicole Krauss

Forgiving, giving, and receiving with compassion is life's ultimate mission. — Debasish Mridha

History can be ironic, particularly with regard to the invention of traditions in general and traditions of language in particular. Few people have noticed, or are willing to acknowledge, that the Land of Israel of biblical texts did not include Jerusalem, Hebron, Bethlehem, or their surrounding areas, but rather only Samaria and a number of adjacent areas - in other words, the land of the northern kingdom of Israel. Because — Shlomo Sand

I can't be reading novels when I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in. The hardest thing to do is keep the tone and your attitude over the course of a year or however long it takes.But when I'm writing short stories, which I will be doing shortly, I can read anything I like. — T.C. Boyle

I'd never even looked at a pair of skis. I didn't even realise the boots were separate. I thought it was one whole thing. — Chloe Madeley

Faith becomes the foundation I'm built on. — T.D. Jakes

Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him. — Sun Tzu

I like all of the mental, psychological thriller movies too. I enjoy horror movies across the board. — Sophia Bush