Mega Machines Quotes & Sayings

People said - though this felt like a heresy - that they had seen Camille make Robespierre laugh. — Hilary Mantel

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world. — Roger Ascham

I love the needle poke, the red pop/
and when an arc of red drops,/
quivering and shaped like wings/
beg me to lick them off,/
quickly savoring your shoulder/
newly marked with a nearly invisible/
but indelible butterfly — Rachel Dacus

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences. — Josh Billings

In fact she's a Baptist, which is almost like being Christian, only louder. — Orson Scott Card

O Grandpa turned the rusty latchkey of his magnificent remembery and set free a symphony of stories — Glenda Millard

Your best kicks ass and takes names," Jack says, and he punches my shoulder again. — Allen Zadoff

When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble. — Patrick DeWitt

He's given me enough homework to last ten years. I'm gonna die of nerdism. Jason said. — Mark A. Cooper

I have no expectation that any man will read history aright who thinks that what was done in a remote age, by men whose names have resounded far, has any deeper sense than what he is doing today. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As individuals, we experience ourselves as the center of whatever social world we inhabit. We think that we are free and refuse to see that we are functions of our particular culture. That culture no longer organically reflects us, it is not our sum total, it is not the collective phenomenology of our creative possibilities - it possess and rules us, reduces us, obstructs the flow of sexual and creative energy and activity, penetrates even into what Freud called the id, gives nightmare shape to natural desire. — Andrea Dworkin

Men who pride themselves on being shrewd in discovering the weak points, the vanity, the dishonesty, immorality, intrigue, and pettiness of others think they understand character. They know only a part of character. They know only the depths to which some men may sink; they know not the heights to which some men may rise. — William George Jordan