Presto Escape Quotes

#1. Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

Ernest Hemingway,

#2. The Singularity is at once an escape and a birth fantasy. I said to him: A Zeus dream that avoids the organic body altogether. Brand-new creatures burst forth from men's heads. Presto! The mother and her evil vagina disappears.

Siri Hustvedt

#3. Like most parents, I think, my children have been the source of some of my most intense joys and despairs, my deepest moral dilemmas and greatest moral achievements.

Alison Gopnik

#4. My mug had a reindeer in a bathrobe and slippers with Christmas lights laced in its antlers, toasting the merry season with champagne and saying, Bingle Jells.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. We must fight intolerance, racism and the far-Right.

David Lagercrantz

#6. I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day, but one's coronation.

Maureen Lipman

#7. He who loves does not dispute: He who disputes does not love.

Laozi

#8. The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.

Karl Popper

#9. Such a quintessentially Human thing, to express sorrow through apology.

Becky Chambers