Sex in space is more than a Big Bang.
I would much prefer their minds to be engaged in the deadly arts than clouded with dreams of marriage and fortune, as your own so clearly is!
Real power. . . comes not from hate, but from truth.
Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown. ' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book.
Living men are bound by time. . . Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?
I'm 50-50 on glamour stuff. I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.
Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker. Sometimes you've got to dye your hair cobalt blue, or wander remote islands in Sicily, or cook your way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year, for no very good reason.
Utopians don't say, 'The world's corrupt, women make less money, people of color are oppressed at every turn. ' You don't list the problems of the world; you describe a world in which those things aren't the case. The critique is implicit and as a result it's kind of a positive critique. You're not listing what's bad, but rather what would be good - you're oriented toward this positive vision.
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.