Martianonthebeat Quotes & Sayings

What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future. — Theodore Zeldin

It seems a miracle that young children easily learn the language of any environment into which they were born. The generative approach to grammar, pioneered by Chomsky, argues that this is only explicable if certain deep, universal features of this competence are innate characteristics of the human brain. Biologically speaking, this hypothesis of an inheritable capability to learn any language means that it must somehow be encoded in the DNA of our chromosomes. Should this hypothesis one day be verified, then lingusitics would become a branch of biology. — Niels Kaj Jerne

Daniel refused to allow his circumstances to shape his belief system but rather allowed his belief system to help him overcome his circumstances. — Perry Noble

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology — Paul McCreesh

The truth, of course, is that a billion falsehoods told a billion times by a billion people are still false. — Travis Walton

The filmmaker should make it, and then the critic should interpret it, period. If the director goes in there and starts telling you exactly what to think, you have just completely slapped the audience in the face and not given them the opportunity to interest it, and that's terrible. — Joseph M. Kahn

a flayed body untangled
string by string and hung
to the wall, an agonized banner
displayed for the same reason
flags are. — Margaret Atwood

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion. — Clive Thompson

Be sure that you are well compensated for illiquidity - especially illiquidity without control - because it can create particularly high opportunity costs. — Seth Klarman

I don't care if it hurts
I want to have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice when I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special — Radiohead