Railsea Quotes & Sayings

I'm not ashamed of who I am. — Terry Bradshaw

It occurred to me that everything I was doing in Indonesia was more like a game than reality. It was as though we were playing a game of poker. We kept our cards hidden. We could not trust each other or count on the reliability of the information we shared. Yet, this game was deadly serious, and its outcome would impact millions of lives for decades to come. — John Perkins

He reached out with his good hand, cupping her chin.
"Gretchen, don't you realise by now I would give up everything to be with you? — Anne Blankman

They [Christian rednecks] were so stupid that they couldn't pour piss out of a boot even if the instructions were printed on the bottom. — Joe Bageant

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present. — Sherwood Anderson

Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious - being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so - still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself. — Andrew Carnegie

There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism. — Walter Benjamin

What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might claim this a meaningless question: that we are nothing without our consciousness.When it rests so do we
-Railsea by China Mieville — China Mieville