Thaumaturgic Quotes

#1. He hurled another vast pot of unstable thaumaturgic compound at the militia. It fell short, but burst with such violence that it splashed onto and over the shields, mixing with the distillate and sending two officers screaming to the floor as their skin became parchment and their blood ink.

China Mieville

#2. I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

Adam Hochschild

#3. History is the record of what human beings have been impelled to do by their ignorance and the enormous bumptiousness that makes them canonize their ignorance as a political or religious dogma

Aldous Huxley

#4. A magnitude 15 earthquake would involve the release of almost 1032 joules of energy, which is roughly the gravitational binding energy of the Earth. To put it another way, the Death Star caused a magnitude 15 earthquake on Alderaan.

Randall Munroe

#5. Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

Robert C. Solomon

#6. How do we come to choose what it is that we spend our days doing? Would we choose it again if we could? Did we choose it today, or has it simply carried us along somehow?

Robert Benson

#7. I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

R. Kelly

#8. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

Stephen R. Covey

#9. We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#10. My mum's name is Marilyn O'Connor. She's here tonight and I would like if you see her for you to congratulate her because she brought up four kids alone and she deserves congratulations for that.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#11. Love is counting someone else's needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.

Timothy Keller

#12. Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

J.K. Rowling