Overcivilised Quotes

#1. Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.

Archibald Hill

#2. He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

Stephenie Meyer

#3. There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

Jasper Fforde

#4. In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe.

Louis Pasteur

#5. Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

George Scialabba

#6. Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.

John Mackey

#7. There was an old man of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp;
When they asked, "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't,
But I thought all the while 'twas a Hornet.

W.S. Gilbert

#8. I think what I love about science fiction and what sci-fi can be really good at is obviously you're working with outlandish concepts that have very little to do with the real world, like time travel for instance.

Rian Johnson

#9. I have died every day in my mind with disgust for not being able to protect my own children.

Pawan Mishra

#10. I'd like to think humans have a stronger sense of justice than the random forces of nature do.

Dan Wells