Top 29 Solaris's Quotes
#1. Race, let's remember, is a social invention and a cultural identification, not a biological reality.
Victoria E. Bynum
#2. Dollar depreciation leads to higher inflation and ultimately forces foreign creditors to question their rationale and indeed their sanity for continuing purchases of U.S. Treasuries.
Bill Gross
#4. Following the eruption [that took the life] of the 106, and for the first time in Solarist studies, there were petitions demanding thermo-nuclear attacks on the ocean.
Stanislaw Lem
#5. You have to earn it.' Vhalla didn't know what else to say. She had trusted him, to lead her, to teach her, and he broke that trust. It wasn't as though it was something she could simply start again on command.
Elise Kova
#6. Would you, Lady Vhalla Yarl, like to someday be the Empress Vhalla Solaris?
Elise Kova
#7. But what am I going to see?
I don't know. In a certain sense, it depends on you.
Stanislaw Lem
#8. Your inability to see yourself clearly is what's keeping you alive.
Sarah Silverman
#9. There are three huge, titanic, space movies which if you ever make a film [about space] you cannot avoid. You may want to avoid them but you cannot. I've never known a genre like it where you are dictated to by these films, 2001, Alien, and Tarkovsky's Solaris.
Danny Boyle
#10. A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.
Linus Torvalds
#11. We don't want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of Earth to the frontiers of the cosmos.
Stanislaw Lem
#12. I start to get fixated on a story and a character and an idea, and at a certain point, I really want to do it. It's a compulsion to explore a specific thing, as opposed to a compulsion to direct, generally speaking.
Edward Norton
#13. In the end, the British didn't vote to leave because of the euro. They're not even members of the currency union. Even the refugee crisis hardly affected the country.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#14. The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.
Thomas Moore
#15. She taught me that I deserved her. And in return, I took her away from the man who didn't.
Elizabeth Finn
#16. In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.
Natascha McElhone
#17. This was a cruel world she had been born into, all pink and squirming. She'd never wanted to see reality. Now, like the cold, it was impossible to ignore.
Chris Kurtz
#18. When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.
Walter Cronkite
#19. Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.
Nalo Hopkinson
#20. ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?
Richard Engel
#21. The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.
Alex Winter
#22. What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Solaris or BSD or OS/2 or whatever.
Bill Gates
#23. In that moment, I'm thankful I'm not a parent and I wonder if I ever will be. What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.
Jennifer Niven
#24. Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.
Mahnaz Afkhami
#25. You hear the word, and believe it in theory, while you deny it in practice. I say to you, that 'you decveive yourselves'.
Charles Grandison Finney
#26. The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
Gail Z. Martin
#27. With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
Marc Newson
#28. I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. they say it closely resembles death.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#29. Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
