Te Espero Quotes & Sayings

Literature for me ... tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader. — Geoff Ryman

Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life. — Jonathan Gottschall

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet. — James Earl Jones

Why travel - because the world was meant to be experienced, not imagined. — Chris Guillebeau

I couldn't do rap. I was trying. I don't know how. I'm not good enough to know. — Dee Dee Ramone

The internet exchange is sort of the core points where all of the international cables come together, where all of the internet service providers come together, and they trade lines with each other. These are priority one targets for any sort of espionage agency, because they provide access to so many people's communications. — Edward Snowden

By not speaking you don't get rid of the story, you just open up a silence, which can be just as loud. — Matt Smith

I have long felt that an investment by the Department of Energy of a million dollars a year for the next 30 years would pay a higher return than any other investment this country could ever make. — Wilson Greatbatch

I ultimately got into robotics because for me, it was the best way to study intelligence. — Sebastian Thrun

I do like to believe there is no stupid and or funny question because in fact if we don't ask than we don't learn. — Kai Greene

Fireball doesn't need a search warrant. — Bryan Fields

I liked being inside the head of someone who reveals himself unknowingly while he still thinks most people find him sympathetic. DG: — Herman Koch

Romance dies hard, because its very nature is to want to live. — Andre Dubus