Mandarax Quotes & Sayings

I believe when it is convenient for me to believe. — Gabrielle Zevin

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the Earth's equator, would revolve with the Earth and would thus be stationary above the same spot on the planet. It would remain fixed in the sky of a whole hemisphere ... [to] provide coverage to half the globe, and for a world service three would be required, though more could be readily utilized. (1945) [Predidicting geosynchronous communication satellites] — Arthur C. Clarke

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths. — George R R Martin

Remember why you started, remember where you're headed, think of how great it will be to get there, and keep going. — Ralph Marston

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church. — John Wesley

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you. — Jose Marti

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea. — Kurt Vonnegut

That was another thing people used to be able to do, which they can't do anymore: enjoy in their heads events which hadn't happened yet and might never occur. My mother was good at that. Someday my father would stop writing science fiction, and write something a whole lot of people wanted to read instead. And we would get a new house in a beautiful city, and nice clothes, and so on. She used to make me wonder why God had ever gone to all the trouble of creating reality.
Quoth Mandarax:
Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
- GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS — Kurt Vonnegut

No one can remember more than three points. — Phil Crosby