Untalkative Quotes

#1. Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

E. O. Wilson

#2. Some people out there think everything I do is a publicity stunt, they think when I go to the bathroom it's a publicity stunt.

Madonna Ciccone

#3. Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense.

Paul Johnson

#4. A Stiff, the first to jump? Unheard of." "There's a reason why she left them, Lauren," he says. His voice is deep, and it rumbles.

Veronica Roth

#5. She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.

Milan Kundera

#6. I didn't know any gay people in my childhood.

Dolly Parton

#7. People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Helen Keller

#8. That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#9. I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

Julie Taymor

#10. You can tell how poor someone feels by the number of times he references "money" in his conversation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. The captain of HMS Terror often thought that he knew nothing about the future - other than that his ship and Erebus would never again steam or sail - but then he reminded himself of one certainty: when his store of whiskey was gone, Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was going to blow his brains out.

Dan Simmons

#12. There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

George R R Martin

#13. An ancient adage warns, Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three.

Fred Brooks

#14. Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong.

Soren Kierkegaard