Visakay Obituary Quotes & Sayings

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice. — Van Jones

The notion of a universe filled with cowards ... who stay cowardly FOREVER, no matter how advanced they become ... seems no[t] only unimaginative and temporally myopic, but deeply dismal, as well. — David Brin

I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested
intrigued even
by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain. — Kate Morton

Do not be like the cat who wanted a fish but was afraid to get his paws wet. — William Shakespeare

You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't. — Anthony Doerr

Once upon a time, my government turned my city into a police state, kidnapped me, and tortured me. When I got free, I decided that the problem wasn't the system, but who was running it. Bad guys had gotten into places of high office. We needed good apples. I worked my butt off to get people to vote for good apples. We had elections. We installed the kind of apples everyone agreed would be the kind of apples we could be proud of. They said good things. A few real dirtbags like Carrie Johnstone lost their jobs.
And then, well, the good apples turned out to act pretty much exactly like the bad apples. Oh, they had reasons. There were emergencies. Circumstances. It was all really regrettable.
But there were always emergencies, weren't there? — Cory Doctorow

The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings. — Howard Zinn

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest. — Thomas A Kempis

Your taste for abbreviation meant that instead of finishing the works you undertook, you finished yourself. You — Edouard Leve

You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you're in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I'm not that kind of singer. — Bob Dylan

Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts. — Charles Stross

I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together. — Deb Caletti

He summoned up what he'd been told by numerous ladies was his most charming of smiles."But then we would never have met."
Harriet muttered something that sounded very much like, "Unbelievable" under her breath, and then began marching down the alley toward the main street, apparently not moved in the least by his charm. — Jen Turano

What worse illness can there be than acute conventionality. You should pray every night that you don't wake up with it. — George Weinberg

I think that everybody that's coming out to Warped Tour, when they come to see the show, they're always like; let's go see that band that band that band and ... that girl. I think that I tend to be that girl sometimes and I think that it's cool that I get to hang out with this Summer camp of smelly boys. — Katy Perry