Arrivals famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain. It's a little frightening to think that every time you walk away from an encounter, your brain has been altered, sometimes permanently.

  • I just like to have the ideas. Other people can help see them through.

  • You asked why the rate hate Overlanders so deeply. It is because they know one will be the warrior of the prophecy," said Vikus. "Oh, I see," said Gregor. "So, when's he coming?" Vikus fixed his eyes on Gregor. "I believe he is already here.

  • I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.

  • I'm not through with you yet. Are you prepared to accept your punishment?" I nodded reluctantly. I wasn't sure what a vampire's punishment might be. But I was ready to find out. "I sentence you to a thousand kisses," he said. "Can I begin now?

  • The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.

  • My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

  • We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  • Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.

  • I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.