Scytheless Quotes

#1. You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame.

John Ruskin

#2. Face them all like a warrior, whether you are one or not.

Elly Blake

#3. Golf got complicated when I had to wear shoes and begin thinking about what I was doing.

Sam Snead

#4. Rangan came to the surface in the mid-afternoon of Inauguration Day, in the trunk of a car driven by a terrified aide of Senator Barbara Engels, Chairwoman of the Senate Select Oversight Committee on Homeland Security.

Ramez Naam

#5. Shut up, Ed - the world below us has turned into a map. A real map! The woods look like the "Woodland: Deciduous" markings of Ordnance Survey. It is just as they drew it! Who knew! Who knew you could put the whole world on paper, after all! The artists were right! This is so reassuring!

Caitlin Moran

#6. His accent was absolutely delicious and I didn't mind talking to him for a little while.

Yolanda Olson

#7. I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Mark Twain

#8. When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.

Albert Einstein

#9. The reason adultery is immoral is that it might lead to marriage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I had always loved Noah. It was something I did naturally, without thinking, like breathing

Alison G. Bailey

#11. There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#12. Writing a book is exactly like love. You don't hold back. You give it everything you have. If it doesn't work out, you're heartbroken, but you move forward and start again anyway. You have to.
You don't hold some of yourself in reserve. It's all or nothing. There are no guarantees.

Heather Sellers

#13. Unlike Tolstoy, Dostoevsky was ardently persuaded of Christ's divinity, but that divinity moved his soul and solicited his intelligence most forcefully through its human aspect.

George Steiner

#14. There is the smell, too, of course
the reassuring smell of paper, new paper, soft old paper, recalling each person to the first time they really did press their nose into a book.

Deborah Meyler

#15. When one heated exchange (in English) led a commenter to write "Go fuck yourself!" in Lojban, it turned into a lengthy discussion of why he hadn't said what he meant to say, and what the proper Lojban expression for the sentiment might be.

Arika Okrent

#16. If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

Bill Janklow