Daku Island Quotes

#1. If the humanities were science, the vocabularies of the world's languages would add up, not overlap.

Thorsten J. Pattberg

#2. Even writers need relief from words.

Sarah Vowell

#3. Expose yourself," they said. "Let us see your deepest and your darkest."
My deepest and my darkest? What are you, my gynecologist?

Jay Asher

#4. We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015 ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.

Annie Lennox

#5. Fate might hate me, but that doesn't stop me from hoping one day she forgets about her favorite chew toy. When that day comes I hope karma has some fun with that bitch fate

Harper Sloan

#6. The law of gratitude is universal. It is a natural function of the soul. All things upon this earth or in the universe operate and respond to love and praise.

Robert Scheid

#7. Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

Elizabeth Bowen

#8. Maybe we should spend less time teaching kids to believe in Santa and more time teaching them to believe in themselves.

Brooke Hampton

#9. Zidane is the master. Over the past 10 years, there's been no-one like him, he has been the best player in the world.

Zinedine Zidane

#10. I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.

Andy Serkis

#11. When people bury treasure nowadays they do it in the Post-Office bank.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#12. The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Joe Walsh

#13. Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Oh. That. Look, that was a time long time ago.
That's not going to happen this time. I'm clean. I just want to have a nice dinner here with my girlfriend.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. For years they've grumbled that England is a cesspool governed by an immoral king under the spell of the Whore of Babylon, which is their cute nickname for the pope.

Sarah Vowell