Nunivak Quotes & Sayings

Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my breath to make sure I could hear him breathing. I suppose I could have used my magic on him, but this was a lot more satisfying. — Kim Harrison

[In acting] I like the fight scenes because you don't have to remember lines. — Travis Fimmel

We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again. — Nathan Wolfe

Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge. — John Kenneth Galbraith

One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890. — John Burnside

If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner. — Michael Atiyah

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. — C.L.R. James

Look, you came all the way out here to help me. The least I can do is give you a place to stay. But my dad will be there, so ... "
"So we have to be quiet," he whispers, waggling his eyebrows comically.
I just smile. I neither confirm nor deny that there will be more sex. But there will be. If he tries very hard at all, there definitely will be. — M. Leighton

I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch. — Park Chan-wook

I love thee for a heart that's kind
not for the knowledge in thy mind. — W.H. Davies

In order to arrive at a personal style, you have to have a technique to begin with. — Philip Glass