Embassytown Hosts Quotes

#1. Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Douglas Hyde

#2. The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

Carl Honore

#3. I thought that I'd always just do Broadway, my original plan, but that was derailed.

Toni Trucks

#4. The epoch of individuality is concluded, and it is the duty of reformers to initiate the epoch of association. Collective man is omnipotent upon the earth he treads.

Giuseppe Mazzini

#5. Morning's great that way. You can cry yourself to sleep and wake up wondering what the fuss was over.

Terri Farley

#6. The insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being a deterrent, serves as an unforgeable guarantee of freshness.

Neal Stephenson

#7. Rationalism crashes in the tails.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#8. Without basic human values guiding us, we become morally bankrupt. Without love as our purpose, we become empty. Without understanding of both of these, we become lost.

Dr. Milan LaBrey

#9. My teachers could have been Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

Natalie Goldberg

#10. When sparrows build and the leaves break forth, My old sorrow wakes and cries.

Jean Ingelow

#11. You have to bounce in life with joy. Your strength lies in your smiles and your songs.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#12. When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. A person who has read widely but not well deserves to be pitied rather than praised. As

Mortimer J. Adler

#14. Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.

Norman Mailer