Sommeil Paradoxal Quotes & Sayings

Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in the real world, therefore the conjunction of the two is desirable and should be useful. — Suzette Haden Elgin

People ... ladies, I mean ... they dye their hair sometimes," I explained to him. "So one day they have red hair and another day they have brown hair. It doesn't matter," I said. "They're still the same lady. — Diane Chamberlain

Our God! GOD the one and only! Love GOD, your God with your whole heart: love him with all that's in you, love him with all you've got! — Eugene H. Peterson

It was immediately clear that the book had been undisturbed for a very long time, perhaps even since it had been laid to rest. The librarian fetched a checked duster, and wiped away the dust, a black, thick, tenacious Victorian dust, a dust composed of smoke and fog particles accumulated before the Clean Air acts. — A.S. Byatt

You might think people would buy clothes out of pity,
but they won't. People buy clothes because
they want to be excited about themselves.
... it has to be great clothing
that just happens to be goody-goody, too. — Katharine Hamnett

I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed. — Anne Spollen

I don't need nobody to bleed for me! I can bleed for myself. — August Wilson

In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be. — Bill Gates

We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up? — Thor Heyerdahl

I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have. — Brendan Fehr

From time to time, the Vienna Philharmonic could play without a conductor because they are so good. — Bernard Arnault

We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please. — Patti Smith

But things were changing. Everywhere one looked the boundary between the moral and the wicked seemed to be degrading. Elizabeth Cady Stanton argued in favor of divorce. Clarence Darrow advocated free love. A young woman named Borden killed her parents. — Erik Larson