Fidus Achates Quotes

#1. Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. I'm for immigration reform. I think the system's horribly broken, and we need to do something about it.

Rand Paul

#3. To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

Doug Liman

#4. You think America is the biggest place on Earth, but it's not. [The view from Mir] put everything in perspective.

Shannon Lucid

#5. Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems

Sara Parkin

#6. Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.

Rachel Zoe

#7. My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

#8. Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?

Lee Iacocca

#9. Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Henry Rollins