"Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside."

-- Michael O'Donoghue

#San Francisco Quotes #Important Quotes #Rice Quotes

“I do call upon a little Fish Mooney energy sometimes, believe it or not.”
“Did any great genius ever enter the world in the wake of commonplace pre-natal conditions? Was a maker of history ever born amidst the pleasant harmonies of a satisfied domesticity? Of a mother who was less than remarkable, although she may have escaped being great? Did a woman with no wildness in her blood ever inform a brain with electric fire? The students of history know that while many mothers of great men have been virtuous, none have been commonplace, and few have been happy.”
“I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs.”
“Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.”
“Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.”

Source : "The Demon's Passage" by Greg Egan, eidolon.net. July 1991.
“I love westerns. John Ford is one of the 10 best directors.”
“The Church must send or the church will end.”
“People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.”

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