If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.
—Margaret Atwood, 2005Quotes
The past is always tense and the future, perfect.
—Zadie Smith, 2000All technologies should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.
—David Brower, 1992On the loftiest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own rump.
—Michel de Montaigne, 1580The sleep of reason produces monsters.
—Francisco Goya, 1799Little folks become their little fate.
—Horace, c. 20 BCAs 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, 1859Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.
—Lucretius, c. 58 BCA change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
—Anaïs Nin, 1950Divine nature gave the fields; human art built the cities.
—Marcus Terentius Varro, c. 70 BCReminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1886The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
—Horace, c. 25 BC