Tantors Quotes & Sayings

They came to sit & dangle their feet off the edge of the world & after awhile they forgot everything but the good & true things they would do someday. — Brian Andreas

When you manipulate others your attention level drops and you become prey, for you have dropped to the plane of manipulation. — Frederick Lenz

It isn't about love," Vee said. "It's about fun. — Becca Fitzpatrick

Buddhists don't feel that enlightenment is particularly unusual. We feel that it's the natural state. Enlightenment simply means perceiving life directly as it is in all of its infinite, ever changing wonder, in all of its varied, myriad states of mind or as pari-nirvana, or whatever. — Frederick Lenz

I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up from railway stations and street corners, I gather that there are a great many men who share my dislike for it, as well as an equal number of women who ... believe it to be the solution to most of this world's problems. — Robert Benchley

I'm very heterosexual, so dating women is something I'm not ashamed of. But my love life is not as exciting as it is reported to be. — Ranbir Kapoor

So she talked, and Noah, to his credit, did not quibble. He interrupted once or twice, but only for the sake of amplification or clarification, never because he doubted the essential veracity of her story. She told him all of it, from the pod, to the aircraft, to Eunice and the Tantors. She told him what she had learned of Eunice's nature, and why she had no reason to doubt that she had been talking to a machine. She told him of Eunice's amnesia, and the thing called Arachne. — Alastair Reynolds

That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place. — Lester Bangs

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen. — Mo Ibrahim

Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff. — Gene LeBell

So until babies are closer to term and stuff comes up into the pharynx, their response may be to simply hold their breath, resulting in apnea and sometimes slowing of their heart rate. As one of the more frightening complications of reflux in infancy, this typically warrants treatment and close cardiopulmonary monitoring. — Bryan Vartabedian