Spectacled Porpoise Quotes

#1. For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. Soft fingers grip my wrist and forearm. My eyes shoot to hers, but she's too busy fussing over the noncut to notice how her caress is turning me inside out. In a good way. In a strange way. In a way I haven't felt since ... Beth.

Katie McGarry

#3. There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.

George Gissing

#4. The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.

Hermann Hesse

#5. There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.

Jon Hunstman

#6. A fish tank is just interactive television for cats.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#7. Art is solving problems that cannot be formulated before they have been solved. The shaping of the question is part of the answer.

Piet Hein

#8. If you let something go for a good reason, you'll get a better thing in return. iA.

Aishah Madadiy