Esalia Quotes

#1. You had censorship. If you brought a manuscript to the publisher, you knew he would suggest changes. If you wanted to write and speak what you thought had to be written and spoken, you had to act against all these suppressive rules.

Stefan Heym

#2. How different other families were, the shape of them, the things they presumed, the children that grew up in them.

Margo Lanagan

#3. The Roman Empire, Vikings, British, Spanish, Portuguese,... all raped women, but it always seems worse when done to us.

Daniel Marques

#4. On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

Tom Holland

#5. Fervent religious believers sacrifice pleasures of the body, but instead enjoy pleasures of the mind, including the joy of knowing that those men who didn't follow their religion would be tortured for eternity.

Bertrand Russell

#6. Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.

John Bellairs

#7. You stand before a god! Speak your eloquence for all posterity. Be Profound!"
"Profound ... huh." Temper was silent for a long moment, studying the cobbles of the alley mouth. And then he lifted his helmed head faced Shadowthrone, and said "Fuck off.

Steven Erikson

#8. Science moves fastest when there's plenty of debate and controversy.

Lee Smolin

#9. Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

Mark Twain

#10. Humor is the most precious gift I can give to my reader, a reminder that the world is not such a terribly serious place. There is more than video games and drugs and nuclear threats; there is laughter, and there is hope.

James Howe

#11. There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.

Susan E. Isaacs

#12. A psychological explanation of our feelings is not a moral explanation of our conduct.

James Rachels

#13. The era of using people as production tools is coming to an end. Participation is infinitely more complex to practice than conventional corporate unilateralism, just as democracy is much more cumbersome than dictatorship. But there will be few companies that can afford to ignore either of them.

Ricardo Semler