Nocturnus Quotes & Sayings

When expectations of mobility are combined with a consumer mind-set, people are very likely to leave when things get difficult. — Christine D. Pohl

Jealousy, greed, fear. We're all full of these things. But also love and compassion. If you saw a drowning baby, it wouldn't matter if you were wearing a tuxedo on the way to your own wedding. You'd jump in to save him. — John McAfee

SF is a controlled way to think and dream about the future. An integration of the mood and attitude of science (the objective universe) with the fears and hopes that spring from the unconscious. Anything that turns you and your social context, the social you, inside out. Nightmares and visions, always outlined by the barely possible. — Gregory Benford

I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images. — Nina Jacobson

I think if people looked at my body of work, they'd see a great breadth of work. — Spike Lee

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby. — Gabourey Sidibe

Even within perfection, there are flaws. These flaws carry an unattainable beauty, which is indifferent to the human nature. — Nocturnus Libertus

Don't swap horses in crossing a stream. — Abraham Lincoln

I don't think you get perfect couples. At best you get two people building something, and working at it, and loving each other, and doing their best to communicate. — Neil Gaiman

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't know what it is, but I ache for it each day. It's as though I have eyes, but there are colors I cannot see. As though I have ears, but there's a range of notes I cannot hear. — Franny Billingsley

Morality is contraband in war. — Mahatma Gandhi

If a man spoke to you in that tone, you'd invite him to step outside and ask someone to hold your coat.
378 — Hilary Mantel

With the way a lot of men function, I'd say "single" womyn are a threat to society. In fact, I'd go as single womyn are a threat to the system. As a womyn, if you aren't spending all your time looking for what you were socialized to, you're doing something productive. I'd say that scares a hell of a lot of people. — Nocturnus Libertus

Prostitution is not a profession, it is the result of sexism and gender oppression. — Nocturnus Libertus

Perfection is the enemy of greatness. We as people are limited in the knowledge and information we have, so to say one has reached all of the highest standards of what is known as the conventional consummation of human excellence means there is nothing more they would have to learn. This of course, is impossible, for there are always new things to learn, and so perfection is unachievable and unattainable. — Nocturnus Libertus

And I would not have it said of me in song only that I was always left behind! — J.R.R. Tolkien