Mortal Engine Quotes & Sayings

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane. — Binyavanga Wainaina

I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them. — Georgia O'Keeffe

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole. — Ben Bernanke

We were a very small circle of writers. Everybody brought to the table their own life experience. — Howie Mandel

The Chukchee, a people indigenous to Siberia, had their own special way of dealing with unruly winds. A Chukchee man would chant, "Western Wind, look here! Look down on my buttocks. We are going to give you some fat. Cease blowing!" The nineteenth-century European visitor who reported this ritual described it as follows: "The man pronouncing the incantation lets his breeches fall down, and bucks leeward, exposing his bare buttocks to the wind. At every word he claps his hands. — Robert Wright

None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth. — Jamaica Kincaid

Your personal boundaries protect the inner core of your identity and your right to choices. — Gerard Manley Hopkins

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it. — Mark Steyn