Narodno Pozori Te Quotes & Sayings

There is always a sneer in Las Vegas. The mountains around it sneer. The desert sneers. And arrogant in the middle of its wide valley, dominating those diligent sprawling suburbs, the downtown city sneers like anything. — Jan Morris

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? — Charles Stross

One thing that in my reporting that I found and was amazed to find was that, as far as I could determine, neither high-level White House officials in the Bush administration nor even the top brass at the CIA even knew the history of water boarding when they approved it. — Scott Shane

Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear. — Ann Leckie

Everything is support in our awakening. We've been conditioned to kvetch, kvetch, kvetch. Blame, blame, blame. One of the major ways that we don't stay present is blaming. We blame ourselves; we blame other people. I often see students blaming the outer circumstances or blaming their own bodies and minds for why they can't be present. Consider that what needs your attention and consideration is your own mind, and how you view these outer circumstances. You can befriend your circumstances; you can have compassion for your circumstances and for yourself. What happens when you do that? I recently — Pema Chodron

My fault. I should've been paying closer attention." She was paying attention now. — Gerri Russell

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated ... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers. — Patti Smith

Most of the kids I know read only manga, but I prefer novels. Novels are closer to real life than manga, it's like they show you the real world with one layer peeled away, a reality you can't see otherwise. — Natsuo Kirino

It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry. — Alan Ladd

Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life. — Erich Fromm

He had an intrusive gaze and quietly confident manner, that seemed to strip away the layers of protective deception Scott would usually adopt around strangers. — R.D. Ronald

Mathematics takes us still further from what is human into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual world, but ever possible world, must conform. — Bertrand Russell

People can endure almost anything but there's one thing they can't survive. Man is an animal that can't stand boredom — Koji Suzuki

Looks are deceiving," Risa says. "After all, when I first saw you I thought you looked reasonably intelligent. — Neal Shusterman

Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine. — Flannery O'Connor