Raafat Barsoom Quotes & Sayings

The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. — Umberto Eco

They made a simple enough mistake. The same one we're making. They founded their society on resource extraction, and in doing so, inflated their population beyond the carrying capacity of the land. — Daniel Suarez

One of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development. — Mary Hesse

While extroverts tend to attain leadership in public domains, introverts tend to attain leadership in theoretical and aesthetic fields. — Susan Cain

We'll have for a president a symbolic Rebel against his own power whose election was underwritten by inhuman soulless profit-machines whose takeover of American civic and spiritual life will convince Americans that rebellion against the soulless inhumanity of corporate life will consist in buying products from corporations that do the best job of representing corporate life as empty and soulless. We'll have a tyranny of conformist nonconformity presided over by a symbolic outsider whose very election depended on our deep conviction that his persona is utter bullshit. A rule of image, which because it's so empty makes everyone terrified - they're small and going to die, after all - — David Foster Wallace

I believe that these extra-terrestrial vehicles and their crews are visiting this planet from other planets. Most astronauts were reluctant to discuss UFOs. — Gordon Cooper

Advertisers are happy to see the stuff they've branded out there for free, they don't care about scarcity, they want any message they're invested in to be shared and to be abundant and to be passed along. — Astra Taylor

As a mentalist, perhaps only Orson Wells was in Jason's league. After a career in television, Randal has my endorsement. He's simply the best I've ever seen! — Merv Griffin

The number of arguments is unimportant unless some of them are correct. — Ralph Hartley

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men. — Leslie Mann

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. — Amanda Palmer

Hope is the flower of the soul. Let it bloom with action and persistence. — Debasish Mridha

Protected by hundred bodyguards, even a chick can show some courage! That's also the secret of why some head of states look brave! — Mehmet Murat Ildan