Simarrons Quotes & Sayings

The machinery joining the vats was a nightmare jumble of pipes and flanges. Since you couldn't really hire a professional plumber to set up your deathtraps, some clever techie on Angus Caine's payroll must have done it himself with whatever parts he had on hand. — Craig Schaefer

Paris is a city of centralisation
and centralisation and classification are closely allied. In the early times, when centralisation is becoming a fact, its forerunner is classification. All things which are similar or analogous become grouped together, and from the grouping of groups rises one whole or central point. We see radiating many long arms with innumerable tentaculae, and in the centre rises a gigantic head with a comprehensive brain and keen eyes to look on every side and ears sensitive to hear
and a voracious mouth to swallow. — Bram Stoker

Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward. — Robert W. Sarnoff

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us. — Mark Frost

I've tripped over a planet and I don't know anything anymore, I don't know anything because nothing will ever be able to compare to this. — Tahereh Mafi

So we're all living spirit. It's not about isms and schims or religions. Religions are almost like political institutions, but the heart of it is the spirituality. — Surya Das

It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. — Benjamin Franklin

The moon, our lonely sister, filters pain and harm from sunlight, and reflects it back to us safely, free of burn and blemish. We danced in moonlight on the balcony that night, Oleg and I, and we sang and shouted and laughed, hardening ourselves to what we'd done in life, and what we'd lost. And the moon graced two fallen fools, on a fallen day, with sunlight purified by a mirror in the sky, made of stone. — Gregory David Roberts

In order to institute action, it is not sufficient that the individual man have unachieved ends that he would like to fulfill. He must also expect that certain modes of behavior will enable him to attain his ends. A man may have a desire for sunshine, but if he realizes that he can do nothing to achieve it, he does not act on this desire. — Murray Rothbard