The Fossil Quotes

“The joke is... not for sophisticated company.” “Great, I’m not sophisticated company. Just tell it,” he said again. “All right, then. This macho guy in a Mustang is driving around in Las Vegas, and he pulls up to a stoplight next to a hot blonde in a convertible. He knows he has to make his move fast, so he shouts over at her, ‘Hey babe, it’s too bad the light’s about to change, I was going to tell you a joke about my dick, but it’s too long.’ She looks at him and goes, ‘Yeah, I’d tell you a joke about my pussy, but you’d never get it.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“antipathy.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“Les goddams”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“Corrasion,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“Their policy of noninterference, coupled with massive economic aid, had earned the Chinese respect on the world stage, despite their repressive political system. The leadership in Beijing might not be democratic, but at least it was stable and reliable.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“Protecting the environment was more of a luxury, an abstract problem, something that took a back seat to a starving child.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“He cracked joke after joke the whole time, most of which were funny, but Filio was sure that this would be exhausting in the long run. Men like him were always acting in their own feelgood movie and, in her experience, were the first ones to lose it when the real problems started.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“No, I’m just somebody who realized that psychological suffering requires two things—giving up control of your thoughts, and closing your eyes to the world. All that grief, all that stress, everything about negative emotions that goes beyond normal physical defense responses, are all just your own choices. Of that I’m convinced.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“with the Human Foundation motto, ‘Save The Planet, Save Yourself.’ It was a slogan that”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“Oscar Wilde once said, ‘Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“It was simply tragic, seeing how politics and bureaucracy had taken control of humanity and crowded out reason.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“People are bad at math, and good at hope,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“emotions are a physical, chemically-quantifiable response to thoughts. Your measurable emotions follow your thoughts.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“When the irrational becomes part of the rational, would anyone act any differently?”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“Filio acquiring a hot left ear from the hand terminal, and Pano a deafened right ear,”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“She liked materialistic people who prioritized money and worldly possessions. She liked them because they were predictable, like a dog at the track chasing the mechanical hare. In the end, if they came out ahead, it was almost guaranteed that they wouldn’t complain. Their friendship could be bought, literally, and their actions and reactions were always oriented towards the same thing—money.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil

“Until then, no one had even considered it as something anybody would try.”
― Joshua T. Calvert, The Fossil