Northernmost State Quotes & Sayings

I need a free hand for slapping you when you act stupid. — Rick Riordan

The best ending ever, for a science fiction book - or any novel, now that I think about it - was in Rendezvous With Rama. You know that you're at the end of the book and yet, there is no resolution. Then he hits you with those last six words. Better yet, the power is in the very last word. Wow! — John Gaver

When humanity truly learns that it is far better to help and love than hurt and destroy each other ... then we will all live in a better world! — Timothy Pina

All mysteries which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of this practice. — Karl Marx

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university. — Jay McInerney

Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it. — Susan Minot

If it takes several billion years to develop the building blocks which you need, like RNA and DNA, and then those can build multicellular life and then multicellular life can be honed with natural selection to a point where it becomes sentient like us, then at some point that sentient being can begin to manipulate the matter around it to build better sentient life. — Neill Blomkamp

It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with each one, whether it's an action cop movie like 'The Other Guys' or doing 'Talladega Nights' going into red state America or 'Casa de Mi Padre' or 'Stranger Than Fiction,' which is more of a drama. — Adam McKay

I'm going to put people in my place, so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened. — George W. Bush

Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else's time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How's that for incentive to be effective and efficient? — Timothy Ferriss

I'm not a fan of baseball really. — Andrew Bogut

I didn't know how I could live with that knowledge, without it eating me up, without it poisoning every happy memory I had of growing up. Without it ruining everything Beck and I had.
I didn't understand how someone could be both God and the devil. How the same person could destroy you and save you. When everything I was, good and bad, was knotted with threads of his making, how was I supposed to know whether to love or hate him? — Maggie Stiefvater

life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera- it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache — Miles Franklin

You got responsibilities when you're a leader. You got a responsibility not to kill too many of your men. Or who're you going to lead? — Mark Lawrence

He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly. — Fyodor Dostoevsky