"The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden."

-- John Podhoretz

#Character Quotes #Robots Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink with the large, round surprised eyes of all fish, in which we humans cannot read any expression of pain or suffering, so that, as with insects or mollusks, we feel absolved of their deaths.”
“I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.”
“No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one will ever look at the earth in the same way. Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.”
“If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.”
“The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.”

Source : Michael Faraday (1859). “Experimental Researches in Chemistry and Physics”, p.471
“It may have hastened the move of the former Minority Leader Trent Lott, to the private sector because there was such an outpouring of bitter criticism...The result, if this is successful, will not be much different from what Sen. Lott and others were trying to enact back then...It may be that we are all just older and wiser.”

Source : "Senate GOP raises eyebrows at Gang of Eight plan". www.politico.com.
“Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience - intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic.”
“You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.”

Source : Jill Lepore (2014). “The Secret History of Wonder Woman”, p.319, Vintage

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