Every creature has a survival instinct. It looks like fear but it's not the same thing. Fear isn't the desire to avoid death or pain. Fear is rooted in the knowledge that what you recognize as...
Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.
Is it a shark made of ice?" Hanoen asked. "Or a shark that lives in ice?
I'm a monster. You're a monster. We're fucking inhuman monsters, and we don't see a damned thing wrong with it.
If you're the best that the Earth has got to offer, it's time we bend over and get a tentacle right up the ass.
Captain, the problem is not that I'm paranoid. The problem is that the universe keeps justifying my paranoia.
You'll notice that the Intrepid's inertial dampeners don't work as well in crisis situations, Dahl remembered Jenkins telling them. The ship could do hairpin turns and loop-de-loops any other time and...
For all we know, this"-he scrolled up on the phone screen to find a label-"this Wikipedia information database here is compiled by complete idiots.
Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.
Colonel, I'm giving you a direct order. Eat the fucking cookie.
Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they know what to do with, money stops being a useful transactional tool. So instead you offer favors....
I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it without regret, because I knew that what she was was not contained in that hole in the ground. I...
I've always liked swimming, so long as my head's above water.
Jesus," Kerensky said, looking around. "You people. I have one of the most incredible experiences I'll have, talking with the one person who really gets me - who really me - and you're all down here...
You threw him into space? Yup. And he didn't die? We only threw him out a little bit. Marce
I'm continually confronted with the human tendency to ignore or deny facts until the last possible instant. And then for several days after that, too. Attavio
The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.
To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe: Bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha! Heh. No.
I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. –Steve Jobs
2000: 1,509 craft breweries 29 noncraft regional and national breweries AB InBev and MillerCoors: 81 percent share 2013: 2,594 craft breweries 10 noncraft regional and national breweries AB InBev and...
Pray as though everything depended upon God but work as though everything depended upon you.
Maybe five extra push-ups won't matter that night, but what if you do five extra push-ups twice a day six days a week for a year? Or for fifteen years, as I did? Eventually you realize it does make a...
Well, also ask yourself this: do you know what Steve Miller looks like? No, you don't. Nobody does. He could be standing right next to you on the subway platform, playing "Jungle Love" on a custom...
Ignoring the question, Kyle murmured to Steve, I'll clean up the rest. Louder, to both Steve and Bella, he added, Awesome work today. You guys went above and beyond. I know it was a long day, but I...
Bill Miller, the chief investment officer at Legg Mason Capital Management and a major Amazon shareholder, asked Bezos at the time about the profitability prospects for AWS. Bezos predicted they would...
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had that...
Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or...
I'm a joker I'm a smoke
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
