Propone Quotes & Sayings

Education isn't part of my agenda, it is my agenda. — Kenny Guinn

One hundred facets of Mr. Diamonds "The new saga that will make you forget Fifty Shades of Grey! — Various

... and surely we shall not continue to be unhappy
we shall be happy
but we shall continue to be ourselves everything
continues to be possible — Frank O'Hara

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? — Charles Stross

You said please," I whispered, smiling when his relief flooded my emotions with the force of a thousand dams breaking. "I'm never going to let you live that down. — Jeaniene Frost

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them. — Walter Benjamin

Topics ... are what people talk about when they don't know each other well. Topics ... are what men talk about. — Patricia Gaffney

The environment is better and better for Democrats. — Stuart Rothenberg

These are the figures of steel whose eagle eyes dart between whirling propellers to pierce the cloud; who dare the hellish crossing through fields of roaring craters, gripped in the chaos of tank engines ... men relentlessly saturated with the spirit of battle, men whose urgent wanting discharges itself in a single concentrated and determined release of energy.
As I watch them noiselessly slicing alleyways into barbed wire, digging steps to storm outward, synchronizing luminous watches, finding the North by the stars, the recognition flashes: this is the new man. The pioneers of storm, the elect of central Europe. A whole new race, intelligent, strong, men of will ... supple predators straining with energy. They will be architects building on the ruined foundations of the world. — Ernst Junger

The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

My idea of 'roughing it' is when you have to have an extension for your electric blanket. — Erma Bombeck

I firmly believe that a free Iraq will be a catalyst to other substantive and important changes in that part of the world. — George W. Bush

Nature, through all her kingdoms, insures herself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson