Athan Quotes

#1. In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

Eva Green

#2. Whilst my god is known for his sense of humour, I don't think it extends as far as to save us from death just to kill us as soon as we wake up.

Athan Fletcher

#3. People get scared when their faith turns out to be real, when their god actually turns up on their doorstep.

Athan Fletcher

#4. Bonobo studies started in the '70s and came to fruition in the '80s. Then in the '90s, all of a sudden, boom, they ended because of the warfare in the Congo. It was really bad for the bonobo and ironic that people with their warfare were preventing us from studying the hippies of the primate world.

Frans De Waal

#5. Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

C.S. Lewis

#7. Killing people isn't progress.

Athan Fletcher

#8. Cats seem too transdimensional to get hit by traffic, but it happens all the time.

David Mitchell

#9. Where death gives you a sense of humour, life gives you a sense of love.

Athan Fletcher

#10. Explaining a miracle doesn't make it any less of a miracle.

Athan Fletcher

#11. Empirical proof doesn't drive progress. Progress is driven by curiosity, something we all have built into us. Empirical proof is a safety net for those uncomfortable with the unknown.

Athan Fletcher

#12. Goodness, I know nothing about nuclear energy.

James Dyson

#13. Did you bring me a rat?"
"He has no time for rats, George."
"No time for rats? That's just sad.

Rick Riordan

#14. Simon has the imaginaries, he will say.

Evelyn Piper

#15. Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

Tryon Edwards

#16. But I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.

Patrick DeWitt

#17. Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity.

John Clute

#18. Taylor didn't see an arsonist or a killer. He saw a caring father searching for answers. He saw a dedicated man with a lust for justice

Jon Athan

#19. Pete couldn't believe how sanctimonious somebody could be just because they'd once had a soldering iron stuck up their arse.

Alexei Sayle

#20. Love does not care for time or order

Mallanaga Vatsyayana