Nose For The Net Quotes & Sayings

[I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a loss. Were it not for his politics, he would be virtually forgotten. — Paul Krugman

Some time ago we heard a strange story. The pilot of a small plane said that he had been caught in a one hundred fifty mile gale, which held his plane perfectly still. The motor was roaring, he claimed, but the plane was not moving. "It was weird," he said , "to be going one hundred fifty miles an hour and yet not be going anywhere at all." — James Keller

You don't even care enough about us to hate us, do you? — William Golding

That's the hard work of writing. The imagining. — Jincy Willett

A "roadmap" is simply a plan for moving or transitioning, from one state to another. A roadmap provides the direction to the future. — Pearl Zhu

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought. — Xenophanes

The moment I walk into a room, I have kind of like the Terminator's tracking system for where the food is, and I can get there immediately. — Mike Birbiglia

I woke sometime in the middle of the night and lay in the hammock, wriggled my foot out of the sleeping bag into the chill and found the rough ground with my bare foot and rocked myself back and forth. And watched the stars swim against the mesh of leaves. Like a fish nosing a net.
This is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears. — Peter Heller

If you lay one hand on Simon, vampire, I'll have you chopped up into tiny pieces and fed to my cat. Understand? — Cassandra Clare

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals. — Marc Davis

The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found. — Leonard Cohen