Liam > Liam's Quotes

“A Tupperware container is only as good as it's lid.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Go Marching In

“~Of course, rather than the choice between what you threaten, and our allowing you to escape, we might engage with you on the instant, to prevent you from carrying out either.
~I never did tell you my whole name, did I?
~You did not. Many have remarked that your name would appear to be part of a longer one, and yet, unusually, even uniquely, nobody has heard the whole of it.
~May I tell you it now?
~Please do.
~My full name is the Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath. Cool, eh?
~Such braggadocio. That smacks of smokescreen, not power.
~Take it as you will, chum. But how many Culture ships do you know of that exaggerate their puissance?”
― Ian M. Banks

“The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution." ~ Augusto Boal”
― Augusto Boal

“Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.”
― Vladimir Lenin

“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.”
― Albert Camus

“Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren. (anonymous twitter joke referenced in the book)”
― Anonymous, An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

“Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.”
― Iain M. Banks, The Algebraist

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“Life is too short and love is too long.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth