Philebus Sparknotes Quotes & Sayings

It is always possible to create something original. — George Gershwin

The principles are exactly the same as those of QED: everything is built out of propagators, vertex diagrams, and coupling constants. But there are new actors and whole new plot lines, including one called QCD. — Leonard Susskind

The unending chase for money, I believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself. I've used the word 'corrupting,' and I want to be very clear about it: I mean by it not the corruption of individuals, but a corruption of a system itself that all of us are forced to participate in against our will. — Scott Peters

Grandmother walked up over the bare granite and thought about birds in general. It seemed to her no other creature had the same dramatic capacity to underline and perfect events
the shifts in the seasons and the weather, the changes that run through people themselves. p.33 — Tove Jansson

I don't believe in brands. — James Dyson

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license. — Michael Franks

I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some point. — Alastair Reynolds