"There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying."

-- Josh Billings

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #Comedy Quotes

“All things can corrupt perverse minds.”
“What modern technology has done has afforded us the luxury of abbreviation and being concise with time, I think. Things that it would take you a week to do can now be done in a day, which is absolutely awesome because you can concentrate on the bigger picture.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I never let my politics supersede my manners.”
“Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.”
“Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not sufficient, and what it really needs is more you. And it does, actually; it does. Go look outside. You can't tell me that we are done making the world.”
“Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.”
“Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.”
“Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.171, Spectra

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