Tainter Machine Quotes & Sayings

Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked.
His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be moving around. Why?"
Halt let go a long breath. "Just a vague hope, really. There's a chance that when the Temujai here you crashing around in the trees, they might think you're a bear."
Erak smiled, with his mouth only. His eyes were as cold as the snow.
"You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days."
"If you could manage to do it quietly, I'd almost welcome it," Halt said. — John Flanagan

As a musician I'm about expressing what's inside, and I think everyone has a song in them that they need to get out, whatever their gig is. — Flea

Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past. — Jane Jacobs

I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board. — Mike Davidson

The popular idea that Christianity says "human nature" is inherently bad is actually the opposite of what the earliest Christian theologians believed. — Nonna Verna Harrison

Many like to ask the questions; few like to hear the answers. — Steve Maraboli

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering
that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. — Margaret Drabble

Nobody can be bad at everything. There's no such thing as a perfect screwup. — Jim Butcher

Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity. — Meagan Good