Dagny Backer Quotes

#1. Circles and getting rid of everything else.

James C. Collins

#2. I'm eating a massive pastrami sandwich. It's so beautiful I might cry. Just so you know.

Lucy Robinson

#3. Rock and Roll Over' was the first Kiss album I heard, but I was totally oblivious to their whole image and the makeup and all that. I was so out of touch with the wider world.

Rivers Cuomo

#4. Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin

#5. The desirable elements of life that appear unreachable to the unambitious serve as mere destinations to the determined mind.

Todd William

#6. We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.

Adam Weishaupt

#7. Robert Heinlein says in Have Spacesuit, Will Travel that the only things worth studying are history, languages, and science. Actually, he adds maths, but honestly they left out the mathematical part of my brain.

Jo Walton

#8. The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#9. Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on 'how to succeed' into bite-sized packages.

John Stahl-Wert

#10. What torture it is to hold onto reason as desire intensifies

Belen Gopegui

#11. I pound the counter. "One time! A snake peed on me one time!" "That's all it takes, Snake Piss!" Saul shouts from the back. "That's all it takes," Dane says, drumming on the counter and turning to the hipsters as they approach to order.

Daniel Rodrigues-Martin