Quotes

If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

—Margaret Atwood, 2005

The past is always tense and the future, perfect.

—Zadie Smith, 2000

All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

—David Brower, 1992

On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

The sleep of reason produces monsters.

—Francisco Goya, 1799

Little folks become their little fate.

—Horace, c. 20 BC

As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.

—Charles Darwin, 1859

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.

—Marcel Proust, c. 1920

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

—Anaïs Nin, 1950

Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.

—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BC

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

—George Bernard Shaw, 1886

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

—Horace, c. 25 BC

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