Rasson Quotes & Sayings

Evan chuckled and shook his head. "I should have known it would be another owl. What is it with you and owls? I'm surrounded by the bloody things. There's more of them than the spider plants."
"Don't listen to him," Rai said, standing and swivelling around to take in all his menagerie. Owlery? I made a mental note to Google the collective noun for owls later. "You're all precious snowflakes, my lovelies. — Josephine Myles

And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted? — Garth Risk Hallberg

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. — Philip Johnson

Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end. — Simone Weil

Revenge never does anyone any good. Killing the person you hate will never ease the pain. Always look forward! Follow the path of light! — Mikage

My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters. — Will Self

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it. — Aldous Huxley

As long as superstition and ignorance prevail, humanity will fall short of eradicating war, poverty, and hunger. — Jacque Fresco

The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet. — Randy Jackson

Serving as the only audience for a man raised by crowds of admirers exhausted her. [ ... ] The buried thought that he might have found comfort elsewhere was almost a comfort to her. — Carey Wallace

Dowry - a dowry that was quickly spent on gambling, women and ale. — Bella Forrest

Kosykh: What the hell ... is there really no one even to talk to? We might as well be living in Australia: no common interests, no solidarity ... Everyone lives separate lives ... But I must go ... it's time. [Takes his cap.] Time is precious. [Gives Lebedev his hand.] I pass! — Anton Chekhov

A world without any lies at all is not a good world, because it's artless and because there are no white lies, no flattery. — Ricky Gervais

Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week. — Adam D'Angelo

Emancipation - what is meant by it? Simply that the slaves shall cease to be held as property and shall henceforth be held and treated as human beings. Simply, that we should take our feet from off their necks. — Elijah Parish Lovejoy