Quotes About Ice Nine

#1. there was such a thing as ice-nine. And

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle.

David Quammen

#3. Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns.

Gary Hamel

#4. When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up.

Ice Cube

#5. We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors.

Barack Obama

#6. Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

Raymond Smullyan

#7. If you want your Storys to end happy, try being niser.

George Saunders

#8. Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.

Vilfredo Pareto

#9. didn't hesitate. They rode down

Karen Kingsbury

#10. As long as you are trying your very best, there can be no question of failure.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.

Dorothy Allison

#12. In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Ted Nelson

#13. I'd read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do?

T.C. Boyle