Aristagoras Of Miletus Quotes

#1. The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery.

Ernest Renan

#2. This is kraken year zero," Moore said. "This is Anno Teuthis. We're in the end times. What d'you think's been going on?

China Mieville

#3. People have become less discriminating listeners, which is tragic, really. There's a lot of emperor's new clothes out there, whether they're female or male solo acts. That bothers me. It's hard to break through, and it's like climbing Mount Everest if you actually do.

Paula Cole

#4. I was Cery's best pupil, but only in certain subjects. Oral sex and improvised weaponry, for example, though rarely in conjunction.

Kit Rocha

#5. The dreamer and his dream are the same ... the powers personified in a dream are these that move the world.

Joseph Campbell

#6. When you learn about stories in school, you get it backward. You start to think 'Oh, the reason these things are in stories is because a book said I need to put these things in there.' You need a death, as my husband says, and you need a little sidekick with a saying like 'Skivel-dee-doo!'

Lynda Barry

#7. I feel bad about my struggle, because it is nothing compared to other people's struggles and yet it still hurts.

Melissa Broder

#8. It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.

Brian Skerry

#11. Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

Conrad Wolfram

#12. The essentials of being a person of my type lies precisely in what they think and how they think, not in what they do. Your thoughts shape you.

Albert Einstein

#13. I have not seen a true grounds-up revolution from a bunch of companies getting together. It takes one company to put it together, then people draft off of that, but they don't build it top to bottom with a specific vision.

Tony Fadell

#14. We spend billions on international aid annually, but we don't find ways to connect people to dignified work. I realized that if we don't think about ways to harness private capital to solve problems, we're leaving large amounts of money on the table and doing ourselves a disservice.

Leila Janah