Daniel > Daniel's Quotes

“Telling was only part of it. Bill was good at seeing.”
― Stephen King, It

“What we desire is not the wonderful, beautiful, specific thing, but the higher thing its wonder, beauty, and specificity suggest.”
― Samuel R. Delany, Phallos

“There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

“You don't beat refusal to believe in a frontal attack.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

“Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars. I believe that candy really did taste better when I was a kid, that it's aerodynamically impossible for a bumble bee to fly, that light is a wave and a particle, that there's a cat in a box somewhere who's alive and dead at the same time (although if they don't ever open the box to feed it it'll eventually just be two different kinds of dead), and that there are stars in the universe billions of years older than the universe itself.”
― Neil Gaiman