Patrimoine Quotes & Sayings

'Divergent' was my utopian world. I mean, that wasn't the plan. I never even set out to write dystopian fiction, that's just what I had when I was finished. At the beginning, I was just writing about a place I found interesting and a character with a compelling story, and as I began to build the world, I realized that it was my utopia. — Veronica Roth

There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race. — Isaac Hayes

One of the quirkier cognitive disorders to which software project management is prone. — Charles Stross

The beatings at Repton were more fierce and more frequent than anything I had yet experienced. And do not think for one moment that the future Archbishop of Canterbury objected to these squalid exercises. He rolled up his sleeves and joined in with gusto. His were the bad ones, the really terrifying occasions. Some of the beatings administered by this man of God, this future Head of the Church of England, were very brutal. To my certain knowledge he once had to produce a basin of water, a sponge and a towel so that the victim could wash the blood away afterwards. No joke, that. Shades of the Spanish Inquisition. — Roald Dahl

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods. — Nina Fedoroff

Study it yourself. If I told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told. — Robert A. Heinlein

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside — Anne Sexton