Peavler Moving Quotes

#1. A country which accepts wars as contests between good and evil is suffering from the delusion that the morality play symbolizes real political conflicts.

Pauline Kael

#2. If you get too slow, the listener's attention wanders and the information is lost.

Orson Scott Card

#3. O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
And the marvel of earth and sun
Is all for the joy of woman and man
And the longing that makes them one.

William Ernest Henley

#4. The notion of "long-term greedy" vanished into thin air as the game became about getting your check before the melon hit the pavement.

Matt Taibbi

#5. The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets, some of which hew to the realistic parameters and paradigms embraced by science, others of which partake more of fantasy and magic.

Paul Di Filippo

#6. She was one of the unfortunates trying to get some sort of human grasp of Earth's economics, and deserved all the light relief she could get. I recall that all through that year you could tell the economists by their distraught look and slightly glazed-looking eyes.

Iain M. Banks

#7. Dying isn't so daunting a prospect when you're halfway there ...

Kresley Cole

#8. I should think I'm going to be a perpetual student.

Anton Chekhov

#9. What would Jeeves do that for?"
"It struck me as rummy, too." ...
"I mean to say, it's nothing to Jeeves what sort of a face you have!"
"No!" said Cyril. He spoke a little coldly, I fancied. I don't know why. "Well, I'll be popping. Toodle-oo!

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

Jane Jacobs

#11. Sometimes you had to be who you were and endure what happened to you, and to you alone, before you could understand the first thing about it.

Kathleen Winter

#12. I think it's unnecessary to be mean for the sake of being mean, but I do believe you have to be truthful, but with love.

Geri Halliwell

#13. Whatever the purpose of a fountain is, the purpose of wisdom is the same!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

Jack Ma