kikigrrl96’s most recent Quotables

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do.
We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

I’d much rather be happy than right, anyday.

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

On the planet Earth, Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York and so on... conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than Man for precisely the same reasons.

The light music of whiskey falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude.

His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Why don't people's hearts tell them to continue to follow their dreams? Because that's what makes a heart suffer most, and hearts don't like to suffer.

The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor. It is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an eye for resemblance.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.