Siverth K Quotes & Sayings

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what. — Jodi Picoult

That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment. — Philip K. Dick

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion. — Jeanette Winterson

Harriet Tubman was an astronaut, traversing the south to the north by navigating the stars. — Sanford Biggers

But Unix had a serious shortcoming: No common version existed. Over the years different versions of Unix had proliferated like weeds, so that an application written for one would not run unmodified on another. While DOS presented a single target to consumers, applications writers and computer makers, Unix did not. — G. Pascal Zachary

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man. — Samuel Richardson

Slavery has been outlawed in most arab countries for years now but there are villages in jordan made up entirely of descendants of runaway Saudi slaves. Abdulrahman knows he might be free, but hes still an arab. No one ever wants to be the arab - its too old and too tragic, too mysterious and too exasperating, and too lonely for anyone but an actual arab to put up with for very long. Essentially, its an image problem. Ask anyone, Persian, Turks, even Lebanese and Egyptians - none of them want to be the arab. They say things like, well, really we're indo-russian-asian european- chaldeans, so in the end the only one who gets to be the arab is the same little old bedouin with his goats and his sheep and his poetry about his goats and his sheep, because he doesnt know that he's the arab, and what he doesnt know wont hurt him. — Diana Abu-Jaber

There is only one key to knowledge, and that is desire. — Amelie Nothomb

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Do something pleasant for her when you get home. So, what are you working on? — Karen Donahue