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“Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.”
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“Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.”
Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.288, Serpent's Tail
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“My major vice is sarcasm with a side of caffeine addiction.”
Source : Rosemary Clement-Moore (2012). “Brimstone”, p.11, Ember
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“I can't afford to die. It would wreck my image.”
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“Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.”
Source : "Learning the World". Book by Ken MacLeod, 2005.
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“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.”
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“I wish I was taller or curvier, but I'm happy with the way I look.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none of these: it is the hand of Britain that inflicts the wound.”