Isaac Asimov on oxygen
October 11, 2008
Filed under Quotes of the Year 2008
Tags: Author, authors, Isaac Asimov, Science Fiction, Writer, writers, writing
Oxygen: – An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death. In high concentration it causes death quickly, but even in a 20% dilution few survive more than a 0.8 century.
Isaac Asimov
Margery Allingham
October 11, 2008 
“When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.” – Margery Allingham
David Sedaris
October 11, 2008 
“I haven’t got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.” – David Sedaris
Arthur Schopenhauer
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
George Eliot
“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.” – George Eliot
John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
“The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.” – John Ruskin
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” – John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)
“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)
