Vaurien Voilier Quotes

#1. Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. conundrums in biology: this is the fact that our genes, which supposedly define us as a species, but also distinguish you or I or anyone else on the planet from each other, make up only 2 per cent of our DNA. The other 98 per cent had been written off as 'junk';

John Parrington

#3. It's not what you know about the computer that's important, but your ability to do things with it. By studying French in an academic setting, you get to know a lot about it, but typically, you can't express yourself well or have an interesting conversation with it.

Seymour Papert

#4. (Official Interdimensional Travel Observation #2: you'd think that meeting yourself in another dimension would cause a total freak-out of the infinite order, pants-pissing, screaming, etc. But it's the total opposite: weirdly calming. Like "Hey bro, I know you! Let's go get a beer.") But

Rob Dircks

#5. Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.

Jonathan Coe

#6. Ninety percent of how Ronan conveyed his feelings was through his body language, and a phone simply didn't care.

Maggie Stiefvater

#7. The children of any nation are its future. A country, a
movement, a person that does not value its youth and
children does not deserve its future.

Oliver Tambo

#8. Languor is a more efficient method of control.

Margaret Atwood

#9. To know you is to hate you, so loving you must be like suicide.

Billy Joe Armstrong

#10. I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Billy Joel

#11. I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others.

John Ryman

#12. What is across there? Lykos said.
Death, whatever that is. Said Calidus.

John Gwynne