Sophont Quotes & Sayings

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content ... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble, and from babble to confusion. — Rene Daumal

When you get used to that kind of life - of never having anything you want - then you stop knowing what it is you want. — Haruki Murakami

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children. — E.W. Howe

She stumbled back a step. "Carlos was the ... ?"
"Panther, aye."
"He's a cat?" And her boss was a dog. She shook her head. Was her next door neighbor a goldfish? — Kerrelyn Sparks

(Take a deep breath for this next run-on sentence) I believe that two people can fall madly in love and sift that fairy-tale feeling up through the raging sands of reality to settle on top as a polished stone of true joy, where the "happily ever after" will be something two mortals are working towards and not a finished product. — Zack Oates

It's not the solution, Mr. Canton. It's the path to the solution that's fascinating. — Gary D. Schmidt

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor. — Paul Scofield

I'd never experienced stress before I did stand-up, and it was a massive shock to my system, this thing of waking up, and the nerves of, 'You're on stage tonight.' — Johnny Vegas

We are all tellers of tales, and we seek to provide our scattered and often confusing experiences with a sense of coherence by arranging the episodes of our lives. Starting in late adolescence, we manufacture our dramatic personal myths by selectively mining some experiences and neglecting or forgetting others. — Dan P. McAdams

Old witch passed on a few good things but they'll never counter all the evil she did. — Karen Marie Moning

[Leafpool] waved her tail in greeting as she padded past Cloudtail and Daisy; as she left the clearing she heard Cloudtail meowing, "This time try to pretend I'm a badger and I'm going to eat your kits."
"But my kits really like you," Daisy protested. — Erin Hunter

Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories. — Vernor Vinge

Someone once said that one measure of sentience was how much energy a sophont spent on matters other than survival. Fiben — David Brin

A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival Chen, a Chinese schoolmaster in Vietnam. This extraordinary book made me weep. Read it. — Janice Y.K. Lee

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language. — Werner Heisenberg

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out — Martin Scorsese