"Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses"

-- Steve Aylett

#Book Quotes #Reader Quotes #Wells Quotes

“It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.”
“We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.”
“The environmentalist's dream is an egalitarian society based on: rejection of economic growth, a smaller population, eating lower on the food chain, consuming a lot less, and sharing a much lower level of resources much more equally.”
“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
“You don't need a time machine if you know how to remember.”

Source : Rodman Philbrick (2015). “Freak the Mighty”, p.82, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes.”
“You could be the tastiest, most juiciest, most delicious peach out there in the world; there's still going to be people out there who don't like peaches .”
“It's a tremendous responsibility to be direct descendants of the prophet Muhammad. This family has had the burden of leadership on its shoulders for 1,400 years. I'm not going to drop the ball on my shift.”

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