Pikshas Quotes & Sayings

It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so. — Zane Grey

Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father! — John Pearson

And when we diverge, it will be impossible for the expendables and the ship's computers on all the ships to know which version of Ram Odin to obey," said Ram. "Therefore I order you and all the other expendables to immediately kill every copy of Ram except me."
"I'm so sorry," said the expendable. "One of the versions of Ram Odin did not include the word 'immediately,' and therefore his order was complete a fraction of a second before all the others. He is the real Ram Odin."
Ram gave a little half smile. "How ironic. By specifying that you should act at once-"
The expendable reached out with both hands, gave Ram's head a twist, and broke his neck. The sentence remained unfinished, but that did not matter, since the person saying it was not the real Ram Odin. — Orson Scott Card

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. — Andrew Denton

From the beginning, I did not intend to create a typical classic fantasy. I wanted an organic, harmonious world where my story could evolve. If this world needed gnomes, I put them in there. As for drevalyankas, pikshas, bolugs and other totally original creatures, they appeared there somehow by themselves in the course of events, and then just began "to get under the feet of the main heroes" ... — Irina Lopatina

The ad industry thinks their clients are their customers. They think the companies who pay for the production are the ones they are supposed to serve. So the ads they produce make their clients happy ... but infuriate the rest of us. — Simon Sinek

In 56 A.D. [the apostle] Paul wrote that over 500 people had seen the risen Jesus and that most of them were still alive (1 Corinthians 15:6ff.). It passes the bounds of credibility that the early Christians could have manufactured such a tale and then preached it among those who might easily have refuted it simply by producing the body of Jesus. — John Warwick Montgomery

I'm one of the few DJs who uses turntables. I'm the only DJ that's scratching. — A-Trak

I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing. — Gabrielle Anwar

Rights might be universal but their enforcement must be local. — Murray Rothbard

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food. — Paul Prudhomme

I knew it to the bottom of my soul: You're going to die. This wasn't about survival. It was about payback. — Rick Yancey

I decided to have a regular childhood and not pursue [acting] until I left school, although I wrote plays, directed plays, and got involved in theatre at school. When I left school I decided that's that I was going to pursue and gave it a crack. — Karl Urban

Making love, we are all more alike than we are when we are talking or acting. — Mary McCarthy

Do we always, always to the point of misery, do a thing? — Saul Bellow

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness. — Theodosius Dobzhansky