Rikard Rodin Quotes & Sayings

I had these cheap alien toys and I made up stories for them. They were space pirates. They didn't have names so I made up names. These were the first stories I wrote. Even as a little kid I was thinking about torture. — George R R Martin

No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world. — Pat Buchanan

In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology ... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it ... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern. — Freeman Dyson

I live in Santa Barbara. My wife's American, and she lived in England for 11 years and then told me she'd had enough. — Martin Gore

God makes nothing without order, and everything that forms itself develops imperceptibly out of small parts. — Gottfried Leibniz

I'm not concerned with what people think of me. — Don Lemon

There is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable energy sources. — Bill McKibben

If it makes you happy, then you succeeded already. — Tyrolin Puxty

All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. — James Nesbitt

I like to aestheticize every possible thing that can be aestheticized. — Grimes

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants. — Henry Adams

It is very hard to believe you when I'm trying so hard to pretend it never happened. — Jodi Picoult

One of the curious aspects of a traumatic experience like the one you've been through, she says at last, is how it sometimes results in a softening of your existing boundaries. Sometimes the changes are temporary. But sometimes the person finds they actually quite like this new aspect of their personality, and it becomes a part of them. — J.P. Delaney

In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that we do beautifully. We are, for all of our mistakes and all of our crimes, a remarkable place. — Junot Diaz