Nenita Irabagon Quotes & Sayings

Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A man once spent his entire life searching for a particular shade of blue that he remembered encountering in childhood. He began to despair of ever finding it, thinking he must have imagined that precise shade, that it could not possibly exist in nature. Then one day he chanced upon it. It was the colour of a beetle in a museum of natural history. He wept for joy.'

- "Zima Blue" by Alastair Reynolds — Alastair Reynolds

You can be a small element in a corporate system serving your boss all your life and you will retire unsatisfied with your way of living — Sunday Adelaja

When power corrupts, it keeps a log of its progress, written into that most sensitive memory device, the human face. Who could withstand the light? What viewer could believe in the war, the system, the countless lies about American freedom, looking into these mugs shots of the bought and sold? — Thomas Pynchon

I started this foundation when I was diagnosed. It was established for one reason, and that was to try to find a cure for MS. Every penny, 100% of the public donations that come into this are given back out in the form of grants to colleges and researchers around the world. — Montel Williams

For now I will play by the rules and go as far as I can with that. — Kiera Cass

I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed. — Taran Killam

Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels. — Walter De La Mare

Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction! — Ian Hacking

The operative condition on this particular planet, the central mode which human beings follow, is fear. We are taught to fear. — Frederick Lenz

He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into. — Alice Munro

He always smelled like warm wood and brandy, even when he hadn't had a drop of drink. Funny how he managed that. Funny how his smell was in her bed.
Henry's eyelids fluttered open.
Funny how he was in her bed. — Julia Quinn

It was just the way he was made. — Ross Turner

People who are rooted in the here and now, who are not defeated by their limitations, who don't compare themselves to others, who confidently advance along their chosen path-such people are happy, such people are truly great. — Daisaku Ikeda

Of all the names, one is a mistake. One is a nightmare. The stair you miss in the darkness. — Hannah Kent