Allison > Allison's Quotes

“Nothing great is ever accomplished by following standards.”
― Geoffroy Birtz

“I am sorry. I can not invite you home for Christmas because I am Irish and my family is mad”
― Anne Enright, The Green Road

“Because that is what your babies do, when they grow. They turn around and say it is all your fault.”
― Anne Enright, The Green Road

“In the halls of heaven it was now dark enough for the Aurora Borealis sisters to begin their lively dance of the veils. With an enchanting play of colors they flitted light and quick about the great stage of the heavens, in fluttering golden dresses, their tumbling pearl necklaces scattering here and there in their wild caperings.”
― Sjón, The Blue Fox: A Novel

“Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an ssertion that he, the nerd, does not already know the information being imparted. But your older nerd has more
self-confidence, and besides, understands that frequently people need to think out loud. And highly advanced nerds will furthermore understand that uttering declarative sentences whose contents are already known to all present is part of the social process of making conversation and therefore should not be construed as aggression under any circumstances.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

“trying to get Dutch people to prepare for disasters was a little like trying to get English people to watch football on the telly or Americans to buy guns.”
― Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

“He keeps an axe in his attic.” “Everyone does,”
― Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

“Get the bicycles.”
― Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

“There was an odd bending around in back at the extreme limits of culture and politics where back-to-the-land hippies and radical survivalists ended up being the same people, since they spent 99 percent of their lives doing the same stuff.”
― Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

“The next morning the Fellowship, now filled out to a Tolkien-compliant head count of nine, simply walked”
― Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock