Cordwainer Quotes

#1. I was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADD/ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) as an adult, but I don't remember a time when I didn't have them. Back in the 1960s, when I was growing up, my symptoms didn't have a name, and you didn't go to the doctor to find out.

Howie Mandel

#2. I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.

Dane Cook

#3. There is no time for fear. It's much too interesting.

Cordwainer Smith

#4. The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

Cordwainer Smith

#5. But everything wrong with her is everything that draws me in and makes her perfect. She's flat-out rude to me and I love it. She's stubborn and I love it.

Colleen Hoover

#6. What this power is, I cannot say ... All I know is that it exists.

Alexander Graham Bell

#7. ... but remember that I shall love your sorrow...

Cordwainer Smith

#8. She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is - a cat!"
But that was not how his mind saw her - quick beyond all dreams of speed, sharp, clever, unbelievably graceful, beautiful, wordless and undemanding.
Where would he ever find a woman who could compare with her?

Cordwainer Smith

#9. In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

Clarice Lispector

#10. In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief

Laura Goode

#11. Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs. In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served.

Herman Melville

#12. And now if they should break or you should fall, you might faint for a year or two. If that happens, your local system takes over: that's the pack on your back.

Cordwainer Smith

#13. Joan commented, upon sentence, My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me.

Cordwainer Smith

#14. No phonetic sign, except at a rudimentary, strictly speaking pre-linguistic level of vocal imitation, has any substantive relation or contiguity to that which it is conventionally and temporally held to designate.

George Steiner

#15. The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes ... right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

Rick Riordan

#16. When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

William H. Macy

#17. With positivity, one can emerge a winner under any circumstances, the reason being that the positivity brings positive changes. It is the seed of grateness.

Vishwas Chavan

#18. Love, when it goes, can sometimes burn to ash.
And sometimes it can leave nothing.

Megan Hart

#19. We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire ...

Cordwainer Smith

#20. Crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.

Cordwainer Smith

#21. I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

Sharon Van Etten

#22. I like to make up songs. And it's my opinion that all these songs mean a lot to me, but that doesn't mean I think everything needs to leave the house. If it helps me through my life and doesn't bore anybody in theirs.

Todd Snider