2081 Quotes

#1. The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait.
[The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]

George Herbert

#3. At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology.

Louis Leakey

#4. It's an honor for me to have the opportunity to work with Emilio Estefan.

Jencarlos Canela

#5. The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction writers that the narrative is terribly important.

Robert Caro

#7. Violent anger makes me physically ill.

Langston Hughes

#8. London has always been a warren underground, and Pall Mall is no exception: secret passageways, Tube tunnels, sewers, cellars, more of London under- than above-ground.

Lavie Tidhar

#9. notes were handed out to all students, warning them not to use magic over the holidays ("I always hope they'll forget to give us these," said Fred Weasley sadly)

J.K. Rowling

#10. Men are such boys.

Gayle Forman

#11. What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

Julius Sumner Miller

#12. The hallmark of an authoritarian idiot is yelling TERRORIST-LOVER! at anyone questioning the definition of Terrorist.

Glenn Greenwald

#13. Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Mark Pagel

#14. So what do you do when you build yourself up - only to realise you built yourself with the wrong things?

Caitlin Moran

#15. Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

Yuri Gagarin

#16. She reached down and traced my eyebrows. 'You do have really beautiful eyes.'
'We get to keep them,' I said.
Grace started at my voice. 'What?'
'It's the one thing we keep. Our eyes stay the same.' I unclenched my fists. 'I was born with these eyes. I was born for this life.

Maggie Stiefvater

#17. I had two older brothers, so I was always competing with them. The guys I grew up with on the golf course, when I was 13, they were 15 or 16, and I was always trying to beat them.

Mike Weir