Nuante De Rosu Quotes & Sayings

But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough. — Robert A. Heinlein

Since total skepticism about ultimate beliefs is strictly impossible, in that no belief can be doubted except on the basis of some other belief, indifference is always in danger of giving place to some sort of fanaticism that can be as intolerant as any religion has ever been. — Lesslie Newbigin

It's like I don't have any one genre, I guess. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get me into a rom-com, but who knows? — Joe Carnahan

You can never rise above the light you look up to. — Matthew Ashimolowo

What did you do today to receive your instruction? — Louis Pasteur

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance. — Herman Melville

What fascinates me as a writer is the stuff underneath, To me, what drives a novel is the curiosity behind the character and the depths that you want to find in that character. — David Bergen

When I was a child, the Earth was said to be two billion years old. Now scientists say it's four and a half billion. So that makes me two and a half billion. — Paul Erdos

Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely. — Charles C. Mann

What I loved most was their scent, one that mingled sweetness and decay at once — Hanya Yanagihara

Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places. — Raoul Walsh

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate. — Ernest Dowson