Nsider Quotes & Sayings

I couldn't see the end of the corridor, so I stared at the entrance. The ship was a magnificent piece of living technology. Third Fish was a Miri 12, a type of ship closely related to a shrimp. Miri 12s were stable calm creatures with natural exoskeletons that could withstand the harshness of space. They were genetically enhanced to grow three breathing chambers within their bodies. Scientists planted rapidly growing plants within these three enormous rooms that not only produced oxygen from the CO2 directed in from other parts of the ship, but also absorbed benzene, formaldehyde, and trichloroethylene. This was some of the most amazing technology I'd ever read about. Once settled on the ship, I was determined to convince someone to let me see one of these amazing rooms. But at the moment, I wasn't thinking about the technology of the ship. I was on the threshold now, between home and my future. — Nnedi Okorafor

I think my thought and imagination contain the picture and perceive its significance from every point of view. I have to force myself not to dwell upon it to avoid the sort of numbness that comes from deep apprehension and dwelling upon elements too vast to be yet comprehended or in any way controlled by counsel. — Erik Larson

I keep my center by [surrounding] myself with like-minded people who I can call and visit with and simply be with. — Christiane Northrup

I mean obviously, staying alive is pretty fucking important . . . but there's got to be something beyond that, right? — Isaac Marion

Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

For me, traveling and living are the same. How you travel is a symbol of your life. — Diane Von Furstenberg

The moment you realize yourself as the dreamer and the world as your own dream, you will attain salvation. — Asaram

If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful. — Zac Goldsmith

Confronted with this double madness of the labourers killing themselves with over-production and vegetating in abstinence, the great problem of capitalist production is no longer to find producers and to multiply their powers but to discover consumers, to excite their appetites and create in them fictitious needs. — Paul Lafargue