Railsea Quotes

#1. What can we get on with while our consciousness rests? A researcher into the mind, a psychonomer , a thought-mapper , might claim this a meaningless question: that we are nothing without our consciousness.When it rests so do we
-Railsea by China Mieville

China Mieville

#2. The Nobel Peace Prize is a powerful message. A durable peace is not a single achievement, but an environment, a process and a commitment.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#3. On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#4. [Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

Evan Esar

#5. I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

Damon Galgut

#6. I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.

Rhea Seehorn

#7. Actually I dance really well on the floor.

Oksana Baiul

#8. When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town, on a street where love hotels alternated with gravestone dealers.

Haruki Murakami

#10. You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

Alex Kapranos