Casemon Quotes

#1. Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.

Teju Cole

#2. How did the economy produce all these amazing things that we have around us - computers and cell phones and so on? There were a bunch of ideas, and the good ones grew and prospered. And the bad ones were pretty ruthlessly weeded out.

Tim Harford

#3. I'd always meant to become a musician. I'd just never gotten around to it. And my daughter being born, I was like, Okay, this is seriously the last chance. And also: Do you really want to be a dad who never did what he wanted to do? You've got to set an example now. You've got to do this.

Jonathan Coulton

#4. Insights don't usually arrive at my desk, but go into notebooks when I'm on the move. Or half-asleep.

Hilary Mantel

#5. I want to create the kinds of things that if the house burns down you want to run and save.

Marcel Wanders

#6. A well-trained cat doesn't exist because a cat remains a cat.

Marjane Satrapi

#7. I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through.

Keith Waterhouse

#8. The contours of the coming disaster expanded to include the deaths of all present.

George Saunders

#9. Humankind's greatest priority is to reintegrate with the natural world.

Jonathon Porritt

#10. The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.

Khalil Gibran

#11. Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Robert C. Solomon