Vicky Hunt > Vicky's Quotes

“Entire cities could sprout instantly in the desert, with skyscrapers made entirely of force fields.”
― Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible

“...the entire electromagnetic spectrum— from radar to TV, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, microwaves, and gamma rays— is nothing but Maxwell waves, which in turn are vibrating Faraday force fields.”
― Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible

“The Pentagon has been looking into the possibility of developing “smart dust,” dust-sized particles that have tiny sensors inside that can be sprayed over a battlefield to give commanders real-time information. In the future it is conceivable that “smart dust” might be sent to the nearby stars.”
― Michio Kaku, Physics of the Impossible

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

“An active mind didn't need distractions in its physical environment. It needed a collection of outstanding books and a good lamp. Maybe some cheese and crackers.”
― J.R. Ward, Lover Unbound

“Once home where she could cry, no tears came. Only thoughts weighted with sorrow. Never to initiate life. Never to feel life moving inside her. Never to bring forth life and nourish it with sustenance from her own body.”
― Monica Starkman, The End of Miracles

“Can a therapist make me not want to get pregnant? Can a therapist undo the trouble with my eggs, my hormones, and whatever else isn't working? I can't help it, but it feels like an insult for the doctor to send me there. Like telling people with cancer they can think themselves healthy if they try hard enough to visualize their immune cells as little sharks gobbling up the tumor. It's just blaming the victim.”
― Monica Starkman, The End of Miracles

“Pain was always cruel, but it was cruelest when it came to children. Sometimes she would see a child she recognized from a prior hospitalization, going through the admissions procedure. Crying not in the indignant frightened way first-timers cried, but weeping silently, as if grieving the inevitable separation and pain to come”
― Monica Starkman, The End of Miracles

“Each night they left the balcony door open so they could hear the surf lapping against the sand. And, once when the wind was high, and the waves pounded against the beach, he'd smoothed her hair and whispered, after having proved it so, 'Sex is like a storm; it gathers, it roars. And then it settles into stillness.”
― Monica Starkman, The End of Miracles

“Something out of nothing, she thought. The perfect parallel to pregnancy.”
― Monica Starkman, The End of Miracles

“And, now once again, Margo is enveloped by yards and yards of silence.”
― Monica Starkman, The End of Miracles

“God turned evil into good... God is gracious.”
― Monica Starkman, The End of Miracles

“The cruelty of it. The desecration, Margo thought with disgust. Mangling a perfect body because of an imperfect mind.”
― Monica Starkman, The End of Miracles

“Everest itself was the only mountain which we could see without turning our gaze downwards…”
― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

“On June 1 George told Ruth it would have been 'unbearable' to miss the final attempt. His frostbitten fingers might suffer further damage, but he declared: 'The game is worth a finger.”
― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

“In a letter George had recalled the death of Donald Robertson, writing of 'the great sleeping ones that have but to stir in their slumber... Do you know that sickening feeling that one can't go back and have it undone and nothing will make good?”
― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

“The most notable event of George's U.S. tour, at least in the public mind, consisted of a four-word quote that has been ascribed to him as his answer to the question: why do you want to climb Everest? George's reply, 'Because it is there,' has been used to represent an existential urge, felt by all mountaineers, to achieve a goal that is both physical and spiritual.”
― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

“Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose of man's desire to conquer the universe. (Quoting George Mallory)”
― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

“I suppose we go to Mount Everest, granted the opportunity, because-in a word-we can't help it.' George had written. 'Or, to state the matter differently, because we are mountaineers.”
― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

“It is of course possible to give more elaborate answers to the perennial question: why climb? In his writing and lectures, George described the spirit of adventure, confronting and managing risk, winning admiration; even, he confessed, the desire to be proclaimed a hero. His love for the wild places was manifest, as was his delight in the inner journey that accompanies an ascent.”
― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

“Their three remaining porters returned to the North Col, leaving Norton and Somervell to contemplate an awesome panorama of peaks silhouetted against the red evening sky. Somervell felt he was witnessing 'a sunset all over the world' and also had the illusion that they were camped in a field close to a wall that marked the limit of their capacities and endurance.”
― Peter Gillman, Wildest Dream: The Biography of George Mallory

“The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“The army had little attraction for him, but it afforded him the possibility of taking a great step toward his goal. After all, if the military saw fit to replace the body that he was planning to liberate from the earth's gravity with an explosive charge, this was a mere detail, at any rate so far as the preliminary experiments were concerned. Creative science should be able to take advantage, without remorse, of the substantial sums allocated by destructive folly.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“... the heritage of mankind is not the earth but the entire universe,”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“No country in the world can continue to spend what we are sacrificing for the moon without rapidly being reduced to utter ruin.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“To rise from the national level to the level of mankind, I call that progress. And that's what's so admirable. For a man to progress, once he has reached the White House-I wouldn't have thought it possible.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“You can ask a President to provide for two years ahead, maybe for twenty or even thirty years, but not for two hundred or a thousand!”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture in the eyes of their contemporaries. Today, however, we can see it has given birth to the twentieth-century United States. Don't you think the existence of the United States constitutes a valid reason for Columbus's wild scheme...”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon