Wetware Trailer Quotes

#1. People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

Ray Bradbury

#2. The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

Honore De Balzac

#3. Author's Note: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy.

Isaac Asimov

#4. It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Herbert Hoover

#5. All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love
and most of all, an audience!

Edward Abbey

#6. My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look, transform, metamorphosize herself not as the woman I decided but as she herself wants to be.

Sonia Rykiel

#7. He'd never met a parent who wanted so desperately to pursue and exact revenge, nor one who seemed quite so capable of doing just that.

Cindy Skaggs

#8. An infant no more than six weeks old
a person in the still floppy, stunned by visual stimuli, sucking, arm and foot waving, grunting, grimacing phase of life. How I had loved that stage in my own Daisy's path of becoming. [p.46]

Siri Hustvedt

#9. I hate you," I muttered.
Noah smiled wider. "I know.

Michelle Hodkin

#10. It seems to me that Sotheby's is very much like the British monarchy: an old and apparently very venerable institution which is in fact very nimble on its feet, an institution invested with a great deal more self-interest than the public image would suggest.

Robert Lacey

#11. I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.

Jimmy Smith

#12. A perfect tragedy is the noblest production of human nature.

Joseph Addison

#13. If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

George MacDonald

#14. To my thinking, miracles are never a stumbling block to the realist. It is not miracles that dispose realists to belief ... Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. The French find beauty in the magnificent and in the seemingly mundane.

Lauren Blakely