Worldcon 2022 Quotes & Sayings

Randy [Rhoads] was laid to rest at a place called Mountain View Cemetery, where his grandparents were buried. I made a vow there and then to honour his death every year by sending flowers. Unlike most of my vows, I kept it. But I've never been back to his graveside. I'd like to go there again one day, before I finally join him on the other side. — Ozzy Osbourne

Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation, the way in which observation interferes is regular and falls within a limited range of possibilities. Human culture, however, has the nasty habit of never staying the same for very long. — Julian Baggini

Natural law says that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but that was pre-spanx. — Lisa Scottoline

What love gives you is the courage to face the secrets you've kept from yourself, a reason to open the rest of the doors. — Paul Monette

What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness. — Edward Dahlberg

Laughter enlightens our hearts and lightens life's burdens. — Debasish Mridha

After the primary necessities of food and raiment, freedom is the first and strongest want of human nature. — John Stuart Mill

Not only are animals unable to avail themselves of language to assert their own rights, but many fewer humans have a clear sense of kinship with animals than have a clear sense of kinship with other humans. Among beings with subjective states of awareness, animals are the untouchable caste, those whom human others would rather not acknowledge, let alone render assistance. — Gary Steiner

He went until he felt it in their bodies, heard it in their voices. He went until there was blood, and he didn't stop until he got it. — Lucian Bane

A Writer in Love.

I was just a word weaver
What did I know of love?

Only that
Some days when the words weren't enough,
I knew
I was in love. — Saiber

To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it. — Sri Aurobindo

Well, spank my arse and call me Morgana. — Bex-chan

I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes. — Marita Golden

Don't petals of soft words float upon your blood? — Rainer Maria Rilke