Colorless Green Quotes

#1. Somewhere in the Acceleration, colorless green ideas adrift in furious sleep remember a tiny starship launched years ago, and pay attention.

Charles Stross

#2. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Noam Chomsky

#3. In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.

Maureen Johnson

#5. I don't drink a lot. My family calls me an old soul. And my friends call me a pussy.

Mike Birbiglia

#6. You existing in the world is all I need.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. I've always thought that you don't love a country by turning a blind eye to its crimes and to a problem. The way that you love a country is by seeing everything that it's done wrong, all of its mistakes, and still thinking that it's beautiful and that it's worthy.

Junot Diaz

#8. Ice cream is happiness condensed.

Jessie Lane Adams

#9. I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

Jeff Britting

#10. The gem, which he had supposed colorless, caught a ray of sunlight from the god-gate in the roof and flashed a watery green. For some reason, it reminded him of her eyes. He put it to his lips, his thoughts full of things that could never be.

Gene Wolfe

#11. I want you to love me in particular.

Daniel Handler

#12. All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.

Seneca The Younger

#13. That which is imposing here on earth has always something of the quality of the fallen angel who is beautiful but without peace, great in his conceptions and exertions but without succes, proud and lonely.

Otto Von Bismarck

#14. You don't give up on democracy every time you lose a vote, Ethel said crisply.

Ken Follett

#15. I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.

Abraham A. Ribicoff

#16. Please leave me something ... even one memory would be enough.

Ai Yazawa

#17. Art is craft, not inspiration.

Stephen Sondheim

#18. The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Christiaan Barnard