519 quotes found
“Yes of course I know it's all a dream. Isn't everything?”
“...for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed all those centuries, had somehow not ...”
“.....And sometimes life sends you places to confirm affirmations..... this journey of mine....”
“It's just as important to be around people that influence stable mental health as it is working towards it.”
“If someone loves you they'll give you the world free of charge. If the whole world loves you, not even the richest man can compete with that. Love is true power.”
“Love isn't about what you do for me. Love for me is where I see myself in relation to you.”
“You don't need planning permission to build castles in the sky.”
“To want more was not just childish, but cowardly, and somehow constpatory too. Death was change; it led to new chances, new vacancies, new niches and opportunities; it was not all loss.”
“You have some balls."Frankie hated that expression, ever since Zada had pointed out to her that it equates courage with the male equipment...”
“... I firmly believe that a woman can be whatever she wants to be if she sets her mind to it.”
“The one on the left," Worthil said, "is a male, carrying the testes and penis. The middle one is equipped with a kind of reversible vagina, and ovaries. The vagina turns inside-out to implant the f...”
“I can feel like a hag some days if I want! And I can tell everybody how insecure I am if I want! Or I can be pretty and pretend to think I'm a hag out of fake modesty - I can do that if I want, too...”
“So she did not replay, but played the strategist. She retained more power by withholding an answer.”
“Dear Mrs Chiley," said Lucilla, "it doesn't matter in the least what you wear; there are only to be gentlemen, you, know, and one never dresses for gentlemen. (...) Their vanity is something dreadf...”
“Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. ...”
“The trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't.”
“A woman should always know her place, and it's exactly wherever she wants to be.”
“A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the h...”
“...a guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybodys either for it or against it, were against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way...”
“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”
