Adjusted Basis Quotes

#1. He no longer heard Kellhus speak so much as observed him cut and carve, whittle and hew, as though the man had somehow shattered the glass of language and fashioned knives from the pieces.

R. Scott Bakker

#2. We don't take on Google Glass or the self-driving car project or Project Loon unless we think that on a risk-adjusted basis, it's worth Google's money to do it.

Astro Teller

#3. In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony.

Octavio Paz

#4. They say a picture tells a thousand words, but photographs reveal only a small part of the real story about a person.

Brownell Landrum

#5. The sun has adjusted its structure so that nuclear power is generated in the core, and diffuses outward, at just the rate needed to balance the heat lost from the surface-heat that is the basis for life on Earth.

Martin J. Rees

#6. It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness.
And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.

Elizabeth Lowell

#7. Even though running is physically straining, it's mentally refreshing. Especially when you feel like you've accomplished something.

Biz Stone