Overpacked Suitcase Quotes

#1. Everyone uses everyone, Tee. Way of the world, isn't it?

Greg Rucka

#2. In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.

Jack Van Impe

#3. Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.

Ted Chiang

#4. Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward, he explained.

J.W. Lord

#5. I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don't concern me anymore.

Evan Parker

#7. A vegan who beats his wife is far further down the ethical ladder than a meat eater who's kind to his children.

Moby

#8. We could be silent for a while because we'd
know we had the rest of our lives together for conversation.

Paulo Coelho

#9. China's development benefits other countries.

Li Keqiang

#10. I, Sirius Black, Harry Potter's godfather, hereby give him permission to visit Hogsmead at weekends.

J.K. Rowling

#11. Under adrenalin, at the end of the race, we can say things that we really don't think.

Romain Grosjean

#12. I think there is always going to be inspired music and there are always going to be inspired listeners and there is always going to be an inspired method of getting it from A to B.

Anthony Kiedis

#13. Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact.

Seth Godin