Truhearing Quotes & Sayings

My contention is that especially young, recently trained engineers are in a position to recognize and to react on a presumptive anomaly: They are trained within the technological frame but have low enough inclusion to question the basic assumptions of that frame. — Wiebe E. Bijker

Do you need me?
Always, but not immediately. — Eileen Wilks

His computer skills awed the office ladies. They treated him like Gandalf. — Rainbow Rowell

I have no idea why it apparently takes three grown men to cook some hamburgers.
One to cook, one to kibbitz, and one to insult the other two. — Nora Roberts

It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that's exactly what psychological research finds (again and again). Repetition is one of the easiest and most widespread methods of persuasion. In fact it's so obvious that we sometimes forget how powerful it is. — Jeremy Bean

Our best history is still poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be so bright that no one can hide the greatness of your light. — Debasish Mridha

She's half mad and three parts drunk. — William Boyd

He let a vision of April grow and fill the world. ( ... ) He saw April at the spaceport, holding him in the dark shadows of the blockhouse while the sky flamed above them. We'll go out like that soon, soon, Tod. Squeeze me, squeeze me ... Ah, he'd said, who needs a ship?
Another April, part of her in a dim light as she sat writing; her hair, a crescent of light loving her cheek, a band of it on her brow; then she had seen him and turned, rising, smothered his first word with her mouth. Another April wanting to smile, waiting; and April asleep, and once April sobbing because she could not find a special word to tell him what she felt for him ... — Theodore Sturgeon

Or you can fake your own death," Bill suggested.
"Because really, that's the most cathartic resolution - if all your friends and family think you're dead. Everyone cries, they have a little rant about all your potential going to waste, they put on a memorial service and you can hide and see who bothers to come - and if you're really lucky, they bury an empty coffin. When they couldn't even be bothered to spot you a twenty 'til payday. You know how much booze you could buy for the cost of a single coffin? — Jordan Castillo Price

The unhappy truth is that male homosexuality will never be fully accepted by the heterosexual majority, who are obeying the dictates not of bigoted society or religion but of procreative nature. — Camille Paglia

Love had to be deeper than that, than a glance over tea, which was indicative but not dispositive. — Michael Callahan

Desire is arcane — M. Pierce

This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions. — Cora Carmack

Either he was a perv or an alien. Or both, which would be a winning combination. — Jennifer L. Armentrout