Amster Quotes

#1. The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom.

Richard Preston

#2. A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Richard K. Morgan

#3. I joked with the anesthesiologist for a while, and then a nurse handed me a baby.

Matthew Amster-Burton

#4. Our final takoyaki surprise happened at Mister Donut.

Matthew Amster-Burton

#5. The train gives off an earsplitting insect hum. It seems like you're watching something physically impossible, like a person lifting a house, or hearing a joke so funny the laughter threatens to rip you apart, and then, with a puff of air, it's over. When

Matthew Amster-Burton

#6. Evolving increases our value, and when we know our value, we navigate toward those with whom we share a genuine interest and appreciation. The rest, in my estimation, is bondage.

Kyrian Lyndon

#7. Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one.

C.S. Lewis

#8. You'd think they were watching gladiators," he said. "I'd be the gladiator," Sophie replied. "You'd be whatever weakling they throw in there, who gets mutilated.

Lauren Layne

#9. If I had wanted children of my own, I would have gotten married. If I had wanted to get married, I would have fallen in love. If I had wanted to fall in love, I would have met the right girl. If I had wanted to meet the right girl, I would have drank a whole lot less.

Carroll Bryant

#10. Like many supermodels, I won't get out of bed for less than £3000. Unlike many supermodels, I don't get out of bed very often.

Simon Munnery

#11. As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose.

Sinead O'Connor

#12. We need consistency and predictability, and a sense of proper placement. We need these things before we can mold the world into what we know it can be.

Allan Dare Pearce

#13. But I don't think we have made matters of science into questions of belief out of sheer stupidity. Belief usually has an emotional component; it's desire, disguised.

Anonymous

#14. It's not macho to read? Nonsense. Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-itness. It is also, in my experience, one of the most thrilling and enduring delights of life, equal to a home run, a slamdunk, or breaking the four-minute mile.

Irving Stone

#15. The snails on the pink sleds of their bodies are moving
among the morning glories
The spider is asleep among the red thumbs
of the raspberries.

Mary Oliver

#16. Violence and fraud can create no right.

Algernon Sidney