Unconquered Podcast Quotes & Sayings

By the time I finally finished writing The End of Science , I'd concluded that people don't give a shit about science.... They don't give a shit about quantum mechanics or the Big Bang. As a mass society, our interest in those subjects is trivial. People are much more interested in making money, finding love, and attaining status and prestige. So I'm not really sure if a post-science world would be any different than the world of today. — John Horgan

Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish. — John Collier

And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, while the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. — Robert Treat Paine

Yet, there is a Chennai that hasn't changed and never will. Women still wake up at the crack of dawn and draw the kolam - the rice-flour design - outside their doorstep. Men don't consider it old-fashioned to wear a dhoti, which is usually matched with a modest pair of Bata chappals. The day still begins with coffee and lunch ends with curd rice. Girls are sent to Carnatic music classes. The music festival continues to be held in the month of December. Tamarind rice is still a delicacy - and its preparation still an art form. It's the marriage between tradition and transformation that makes Chennai unique. In a place like Delhi, you'll have to hunt for tradition. In Kolkata, you'll itch for transformation. Mumbai is only about transformation. It is Chennai alone that firmly holds its customs close to the chest, as if it were a box of priceless jewels handed down by ancestors, even as the city embraces change. — Bishwanath Ghosh

On my tombstone they will carve, IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME. — Hunter S. Thompson

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. — David Levithan

Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy. — Oliver Hudson

Assume makes an ass out of you and me - p.239 — David Leavitt

Is the human creature as perfect in function as it might be?' 'Meaningless,' replied Cabal, 'with no definition as to what that function might conceivably be. We are good communicators, passable runners, middling swimmers, and poor at flying. — Jonathan L. Howard

McCarthy in his typical wild swinging fashion, with no regard for facts but with a hold on his audience that is frightening, — Judy Blume

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit." — Sandra Bullock

And thus it behoved Eros to put back fun, romance & passion into the union of love. He had to find Himeros, from the sea, from Uranus' cut off testicles, to bring Passion back into the union of love. — Nicholas Chong