Subdermal Quotes & Sayings

If a man tried to take his time on earth and prove before he died, what one man's life could be worth, well I wonder what would happen to this world? — Harry Chapin

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method. — Nathan Myhrvold

I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass. — Steven Morrissey

They didn't understand that she held his heart, held it so utterly that there was nothing he wouldn't do, no line he wouldn't cross to keep her safe. — Nalini Singh

That's what everybody wants to do when they love like that. They want to get married, they want to kiss and hug and carry on and have babies all the time. — Harper Lee

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule. — Charles Dickens

The beauty of a game of chess is usually assessed according to the sacrifices it contains. — Rudolf Spielmann

Semper Fidelis
Dawn star flares on disk of night
I fall, sun rises — Neal Stephenson

Who fixes broken people? Is it only other broken people, ones who've already been ruined? And do we need to be fixed? It was the messiness and hurt in our pasts that drove us, and that same hurt connected us at a subdermal level, the kind of scars written so deeply in your cells that you can't even see them anymore, only recognize them in someone else. — Leah Raeder

Photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself. — Abigail Solomon-Godeau

If it were a choice between me getting killed or one of my friend's kids, I would happily take the shot. — Henry Rollins

I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose." said Isabel — Henry James

Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being human, speaking a phsyical language she does not understand. More alien to her than any man, any father, yet this body next to hers is loyal, tough, funny courageous, clever, kind, sensual, vulnerable. Sweet. Sexy. All you could wish in a friend of the soul. Or a lover. — Ian McDonald