Maxwellian Quotes & Sayings

There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires
all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser. — Tim Lebbon

We never threw a record together. Each record was done really seriously, as if our life depended on it. — Patti Smith

There is no justice in following unjust laws. — Aaron Swartz

I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! There are no words -how can there be?- to describe what it feels like to become words, to feel your life encoded, and laid out in black ink on white paper. All my love and hatred, melted into words. It was like the End of the World. — Clive Barker

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office. — Steven Moffat

The relativity principle in connection with the basic Maxwellian equations demands that the mass should be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body; light transfers mass. With radium there should be a noticeable diminution of mass. The idea is amusing and enticing; but whether the Almighty is laughing at it and is leading me up the garden path
that I cannot know. — Albert Einstein

I ask, 'Do you think Dylan's telling the truth?'
Daisy checks her face in a little mirror, then hands it to Jazz. 'You want me to find out?'
'Let's not ruin it by calling them liars.'
' ... I won't ruin it. I've got this special way of getting the truth out of Dylan.'
'How?' I ask.
'I kick him in the balls.'
'That's pretty special. — Cath Crowley

Having two women - one who can't know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life - is clearly difficult for him. — Jennifer Harrison

Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion. — Francoise Sagan

If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists. — Steven Weinberg

Isn't it better to think nothing than to think something that is completely idiotic? — Mark Helprin

I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die. — Georges Bernanos

Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes. — Rumi

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application. — Richard M. Weaver

The truth can be made up if you know how. — Jane Wagner