Verna Fishback > Verna's Quotes

“Prepare to experience a paradigm shift.”
― Anastasia Pash, Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules

“We don’t know what you mean, my dear,” Lydia says sweetly, sitting right next to him.
Atom puts his book down and looks at Steven. “It’s the unsolved blind spot. Nothing is ever ‘in the bag.’ Look, the problem of Pre-Collapse science was that it insisted on patch jobs, like Husserl’s critique of the Surreptitious Substitution and its god-like conceit, while ignoring the absurdity of measurement bias. All scientific inquiry requires an expulsive approach in order to maintain the involvement variable. This is basic stuff.” He then leans back in his comfortable chair and continues hiding behind his book.
“The Riddler has spoken,” Hannah says, moving a bishop forward three squares.”
― Joseph A. Anderson, Eden 2:b

“You know what they say?” Nonna paused, “The character of the Venetian people is like the tide.”
― Jennifer Wizbowski, Poinsettia Girl: The Story of Agata della Pieta

“A home’s value should come from its ability to provide shelter and community, not from its financial returns.”
― Fons Burger, The Only Possible Solution: How to Shape the Future for Our Next Generations

“It is not down on any map; true places never are.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“I want to love all the children of God - Christian, Jew, Moslem, Hindu, Buddhist - everyone. I want to love gay Christians and straight Christians.”
― Anne Rice

“Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.”
― Mark Twain

“how exactly can any of us stop the collective madness over there?”
― Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin