Lars Iyer Quotes

#1. There was nothing I could do but squirm faster and try to trust Adrian, who was surely one of the most competent mere mortals I'd met in years. He had a (small, girlie) gun, he had his wits, and he had ... I don't know. Maybe a silver bikini under his commando-wear, for all I knew.

Cherie Priest

#2. Sometimes, 'someday' means 'I know it will never happen'.

Rhein Fathia

#3. The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#4. As we look out to sea, a great shadow seems to move under the water. He can see it, says W. - 'Look: the kraken of your idiocy'. Yes, there it is, moving darkly beneath the water.

Lars Iyer

#5. The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.

John Steinbeck

#6. The sea stretched to the edge of the sky, overwhelming, and liberating, and soothing all at once.

Christie Anderson

#7. You're alive, Lan," he said. "You're not 'his' anything.

R. Lee Smith

#8. History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.

Stephen Jay Gould

#9. The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler

#10. You have to be gentle with the young, W. says. They're a gentle generation, like fauns, he says, and require a special tenderness. Their lives are going to be bad--very bad--and, at the very least, we should be tender with them, and not remind them of what is to come.

Lars Iyer

#11. At that moment there was a knock on the door, and Sam came in. He ran to Frodo and took his left hand, awkwardly and shyly. He stroked it gently and then he blushed and turned hastily away.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#12. We move forward, but we must stay in the present.

Scott Jurek

#13. It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it?

Lars Iyer

#15. Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

Steve Martin

#16. Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

Lars Iyer

#17. Nobody wants to see a bejeweled pregnant lady from top to bottom.

Busy Philipps

#18. We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.

Lars Iyer

#19. I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester

Lars Iyer

#20. It is possible to bathe in nonsense ... to be refreshed by it.

Lars Iyer

#21. For every moment that is past, the angel of death keeps taking the part that is dead and we keeping living in the present. The parasite wants us to carry the past with us and that makes it so heavy to be alive.

Miguel Ruiz