Torborgs Quotes & Sayings

You may be a geek. You may have geek written all over you. You should aim to be the geek they will never forget. Don't aim to be civilized. Don't hope that straight people will keep you on as some sort of pet. To hell with them, they put you here. You should realize what society has made of you and take full revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly thoroughly weird and don't do it half way, put every ounce of your horse power into it. Have the artistic courage to realize your significance in culture. — Bruce Sterling

Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best. — Frederick Buechner

Raoul, you shall not pass! — Gaston Leroux

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool. — Theophrastus

Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton, and mathematics has scarcely ever experienced such a stormy epoch. Mathematical thought removes the spirit from its worldly haunts to solitude and renounces the unveiling of the secrets of Nature. But as recompense, mathematics is less bound to the course of worldly events than physics. — Hermann Weyl

A person with a healthy self-esteem is comfortable in discussing matters of accomplishments and even failures or shortcomings. — John Mind

We will have a more just society as soon as we want one. — George Packer

I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt. — David Levithan

When we finally become present in our lives its as if we are seeing things for the first time. — Renae A. Sauter

I was brought up in Cumbria where I saw all these fierce agricultural women. — Sarah Hall