Nightflyers Review Quotes & Sayings

If God were intent on making his revelation correspond to science, we have to ask which science. We — John H. Walton

At Madame's suggestion, they lie down in the weeds, and Marie-Laure listens to honeybees mine the flowers and tries to imagine their journeys as Etienne described them: each worker following a rivulet of odor, looking for ultraviolet patterns in the flowers, filling baskets on her hind legs with pollen grains, then navigating, drunk and heavy, all the way home. How — Anthony Doerr

crapulent buffoon with the IQ of a tampon. — John Niven

And that's how we lost our ways, because more than modernism we like to love its distorted appearance. — M.H. Rakib

Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed [with Dissociative Identity Disorder had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been disbelieved. These therapists had used fallacious "capricious criteria" (KIuft, 1988) to discredit the diagnosis; e.g., that the patient could not possibly have MPD because she was aware of the other alters [sic!]. — Richard P. Kluft

An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them. — Bruno Dumont

The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest — Richard Steele

For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13. — Ellen DeGeneres

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance. — Winston Churchill

There's a rumor it seems involving the finance minister. He's supposed to resign any time now," she said. "Some kind of scandal about a misconstrued comment. He made a comment about the economy that may have been misconstrued. The whole country is analyzing the grammar and syntax of this comment. Or it wasn't even what he said. It was when he paused. They are trying to construe the meaning of the pause. It could be deeper, even, than grammar. It could be breathing. — Don DeLillo

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree — Joyce Kilmer