quotes about Moonbeams

“A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.”

Source : Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel”, p.288, Macmillan

“Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present.”

“Ours is indeed a culture that tends to assign value to a woman based on her sex appeal rather than her character, and that’s something we must work to change.”

“No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again.”

“I am not anyone's enemy.”

“Power people are generally threatened by authority people...”

“People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.”

“Too often we bask in our comfortable complacency and rationalize that the ravages of war, economic disaster, famine, and earth quake cannot happen here. Those who believe this are either not acquainted with the revelations of the Lord, or they do not believe them. Those who smugly think these calamities will not happen, that they will somehow be set aside because of the righteousness of the Saints, are deceived and will rue the day they harbored such a delusion.”

“Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.”

“The ultimate condition of production is therefore the reproduction of the conditions of production”

Source : Louis Althusser (2001). “Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.85, NYU Press