Doomsayers Club Quotes

#1. The reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.

Lev Manovich

#2. Maruman does not loll.

Isobelle Carmody

#3. Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

John Polkinghorne

#4. We cannot pretend to be abandoning the morality of the past for one more suited to the present. It is certainly not the morality of another age, but it might be of another world.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.

Kurt Loder

#6. There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Elihu Root

#7. True leaders demonstrate initiatives-They lead the way for others to follow

Ikechukwu Joseph

#8. The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.

Alexander Calder

#9. Michael Corleone understood for the first time why men like his father chose to become thieves and murderers rather than members of the legal society. The poverty and fear and degradation were too awful to be acceptable to any man of spirit.

Mario Puzo

#10. The fulfilment of life is in the making and manifesting of impossible dreams.

Sri Chinmoy

#11. Catch fire today! Make today the day you stop complaining and do something!

Steve Harvey

#12. Even the moon gets to put its feet up once a month. Man in the Moon, of course. If it was a Woman in the Moon, she'd never sit down. Well, would she? I

Allison Pearson

#13. My mother had been monologuing about how much I'd like it there while I packed up my closet in silence, wondering if I flung myself out the window, would it properly kill me or just break both my legs.

Brittany Cavallaro

#14. 'Drawn & Quarterly' has always given me complete editorial control over my books and comics, so any decision about what to include or exclude from the book was my own.

Adrian Tomine