Yecsmen Quotes & Sayings

Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. — George A. Moore

There's a theory in the field of aesthetics called the uncanny valley. It holds that when something looks almost like a human being - a mannequin or humanlike robot - it creates revulsion in the observer, because the appearance is so close to human, yet just off enough to evoke a feeling of uncanniness, of something that is both familiar and alien. It — Blake Crouch

From Doc Dom, the thriller that I'm currently working on. Hernando Suarez to one of his henchmen who had just betrayed him.

"Where there is garbage, there's a rat. — Christopher Bowron

There is no evidence that suggests women are naturally better at caring for children ... with the fact of child-bearing out of the centre of attention, there is even more reason for treating girls first as human beings, then as women. — Margaret Mead

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

I have often heard, that it is safer to hear and to take counsel, than to give it. — Thomas A Kempis

If he's straight, I'll buy you dinner," Patricia retorted. "You're buying me dinner anyway." "Exactly." Anthony — Ariel Tachna

I just feel like why spend all my time doing something that makes me unhappy just to spend my time off thinking about how I have to go back to a job. It's such a vicious cycle that people get stuck in. But I'm also very lucky. I can't sit here too eagerly and say all that. — Justin Vernon