R Islas Quotes

#1. People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view.

Erik Larson

#2. The chopper made a wide circle and came back around, hovered for a few seconds over him and moved forward. Nothing. "Shit," he yelled. Knowing he'd fucked up. He was their eyes. He was supposed to see everything. Sweat

A.E. Via

#3. Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of ivory interests more than the loss of an empire, or the ruin of an unoffending group of infants, and their nearest relatives.

Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

#4. Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

Abraham J. Twerski

#5. Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

Steven Moffat

#6. It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke