Worldlet Quotes & Sayings

People make their own history, as Karl Marx once memorably observed, but not under conditions of their own choosing. — Richard J. Evans

Food ... love ... mother ... career ... Live every day to the fullest. Partake of the four basic guilt groups. — Cathy Guisewite

If only Myrtle would pay attention to the Boy's Own Journal, Blackwood's Magazine, etc., she would know that these creatures were Threls, who come from a worldlet called Threlfall on the far side of the asteroid belt. This Threlfall is a cheerless, chilly spot, and the whole history and religion of the Threls has been concerened with their quest to knit a nice woolly coverlet for it. — Philip Reeve

Hui Shi was set on using the calabash to hold water, never thinking that he could use water to hold the calabash. — Tsai Chih Chung

My acupuncturist once told me that it doesn't have to hurt to work. She might have meant the needles, but I think she really meant love. — Erica Goros

If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. — Mo Ibrahim

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more? — Libba Bray

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea. — Francois Truffaut