Verdean London Quotes & Sayings

I say, indeed: "consolation in the nonsentience of nature." For nonsentience is consoling; the world of nonsentience is the world outside human life; it is eternity; "it is the sea gone off with the sun" (Rimbaud). — Milan Kundera

Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? — Jean Kerr

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. — Walter Jon Williams

Covering up, so far as I can see, is often the accompaniment to far more truly shameful behaviour than stripping off. — Julie Burchill

So did you bring me down here to show me how artistic you are?"
"No, I just wanted to talk to you alone. You know ... get to know each other better." "In case you didn't notice, we were alone outside," I responded, with a raised brow. "Unless you think the birds were eavesdropping on our conversation." Concealed — Sang Kromah

Back in the time when life was easy, the Internet would have told me what I needed to know. The great thing about the Internet was it didn't care why you were asking. — Susan Beth Pfeffer

Why don't we all just get a long-neck? — Hank Williams Jr.

A walk with a two-year-old is very Zen; it is not about the end but the journey. He needs to pet the dog someone is walking; to roll down the slight incline to the church basement, and then roll again, and again, and again; to remind me of the place where the wasps (he calls them bees) live, then zoom past it. — Marc Aronson

And while English workmen are often unemployed and in great want, Indian women weave cotton by machinery, for the Far East at wages of six-pence a day. In short, the intelligent manufacturers are fully aware that the day is not far off when they will not know what to do with the "factory hands" who formerly wove cotton-cloth for export from England. — Pyotr Kropotkin

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that. — Epictetus

Look Mister, I don't care what you think, you are bald. If the census had a "bald" category, You'd be in it, no problem. If you go to heaven, you're going to bald heaven. If you go to hell, you're going to bald hell. Have you got that straight? Then stop looking away from the truth. Let's go now. I'm taking you straight to bald heaven, nonstop. — Haruki Murakami

First of all, I'm not even tired. — Mo Willems

If I'm doing an event, if it's a charity event, where it's a walk-around event, where I gotta put a thousand small plates out in the course of a four-hour event, I gotta make sure I can do something that I know I can produce, that's going to be consistent and good all night long. — Tom Colicchio

So the stories aren't just stories, is what you're saying. They're really secret knowledge disguised as stories."
"One could say that of all stories, younger brother. — G. Willow Wilson

In the last decade or so, however, a new generation of brain imaging studies and clinical trials has put meditation firmly on the scientific map. They're showing that although watching our thoughts might seem ephemeral, it can have hard physical effects on our brains and bodies. — Jo Marchant