Vic Zhou Quotes & Sayings

Every passing year brings us more past futures. Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin. It's counterproductive to blither on about "the" future. It's always somebody's future, and we're not who we used to be. — Bruce Sterling

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement. — Bill Budge

She had begun to wonder why she had never seemed to belong to anyone — Frances Hodgson Burnett

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. — Paul Valery

I've never seen Madonna. I just grew up listening to her music - I want to see her. — Juicy J

It was the Dutch of this era who invented the idea of the home as a personal, intimate space; one might say they invented coziness. — Russell Shorto

As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism. — Antonia Fraser

faith is not hope, not a mere expectation of future things, but a present receiving of that which is promised in a real and substantial way. It is accepting, not expecting. — A.B. Simpson

Do you think Oz could give me courage? asked the Cowardly Lion. — L. Frank Baum

From time immemorial we've been cleaning up after male messes. When a man does it for a woman, it's called being rescued. When a woman does it for a man, it's housework. — Kate Meader

Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine. — Justin Trudeau

The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with slide rulers - It's the only way for the human race to escape from its current predicaments - Too bad we've forgotten how to do it — Neal Stephenson

The paradox, though, was already evident: that the more solidly the foundations of an English state were cemented together, so the harder did it become to present the island as a single realm. Seen in this light, Athelstan's conquest of York, the feat which had first served to project the power of the West Saxon monarchy deep into the north of Britain, can be seen as the decisive event in the making of Scotland as well as of England. There — Tom Holland

Before going mountain bike riding, it's a good idea to leave your valuables at home. Your testicles, for example. — John Dockery