Queen Amidala Quotes & Sayings

Filters fail when they know us too well and when they don't know us well enough. — John Brockman

One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all times be aware of - and hence be able to control - the levels of abstraction on which he is working. The capacity to shuttle between levels of abstraction, with ease and with clarity, is a signal mark of the imaginative and systematic thinker. — C. Wright Mills

I didn't respond to people thrusting microphones at me and asking me questions that were unanswerable in a sound bite. — Bill Ayers

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. — Horace Mann

Think about it. We are fed in the Eucharist, by our mothers when we are infants, by our parents as children, by friends at dinner parties, by a lover when we feast on one another's bodies ... and on occasion, on one another's souls. Don't you want me to feed you? You don't want to feast on my body, but at least feast on my cake.
Gabriel chuckled. When Julia didn't answer, he turned his full attention to his dessert. She scowled. If he thought this disgusting display of food porn was going to get her attention and maybe make her a little hot and bothered until she was putty in his hands ...
... he was right. — Sylvain Reynard

His answering smile evoked silken sheets and jasmine-scented breezes at midnight. — Sarah J. Maas

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world. - Oberyn — George R R Martin

A writer should always feel like he's in over his head — Michael Cunningham