Blobjects Quotes

#1. The Internet is global and seemingly omniscient, while iPods and phones are all microscopic workings encased in plastic blobjects. Compare that to a steam engine, where you can watch the pistons move and feel the heat of its boilers. I think we miss that visceral appeal of the machine.

Scott Westerfeld

#2. I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

Scott Westerfeld

#3. It [seed of doubt] made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise. (Ender's Game, page 111)

Orson Scott Card

#4. The more settled and ordered one's life - and in particular one's communal life - the easier it becomes for one's imagination to fail.

Charles Krauthammer

#5. When people have expectations, you're going to make a lot of them upset - when in fact I'm not trying to represent anybody but myself.

Steve Grand

#6. The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. what isn't said can hurt the most.

Sarah Dessen

#8. It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

Roger Wicker

#9. My parents love it! They're on set. They make cameos in the movie. My father is a psycho-analyst and a professor at Harvard and he told me how many of the other professors at Harvard have gone and seen it. They love Hostel and they love the thought behind it.

Eli Roth

#10. Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.

Gabrielle Aplin

#12. Ah, he would take her beyond
beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.

Edith Wharton

#13. Asking for help isn't a weakness."

"It's more a matter of trust. Not just trust in someone else, but in myself.

Jenn Bennett