“He came to me when I had reached my nadir. I had become unable to type, write or drive without needles gouging the nerves in my wrists and arms. An ominous numbness traveled in a circuit along the inside of my legs. Then, curled up into a little ball like a shellshocked potato bug, I suffered the coup de grâce: my first migraine.”
–Mary Grover. “When I Lost the Ability to Type.” Salon Feb. 14, 2012. Web.
“When paranoids examine powerful monitoring technologies such as the Clipper chip and DNA scans, they see only the Orwellian potentials–and will not grant the government any legitimate rights to intrude upon the private lives of citizens. One needn’t be a certified paranoid, however, to see problems near at hand. Observing the government’s sophisticated techniques for intelligence gathering, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas wrote that ‘We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. The aggressive breaches of privacy by the government increase by geometric proportions.’ When a justice of the Supreme Court voices such concerns, we all may be forgiven a touch of paranoia.”
–Laurence Behrens and Leonard J. Rosen. Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. Sixth edition. New York: Longman, 1997. Quote on page 422.
“Summaries matter. They do more than describe something–they set a path for future action.”
–Dean Ward and Elizabeth Vander Lei. Real Texts: Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines. New York: Pearson, 2012. Quote on page 360.
“Rhetoric came into existence as a specific field of study in the early part of the fifth century BC in Sicily to enable ordinary citizens to make an effective case concerning why they should be entitled to recover property that had been seized by a dictatorial tyrant. The claimants had to present their case without supporting documentation and construct an argument solely on the basis of inference and probability.”
–Stuart Hirschberg and Terry Hirschberg. Arguing Across the Disciplines: A Rhetoric and Reader. New York: Pearson, 2007. Quote on page 3.
“He raised his face. ‘Yes, I’m calmer now. Let me see what I can do.’ Ren closed his eyes, resumed his prayerful position again. But this time I suspected he wasn’t seeking guidance from Abbot Eng.”
–Linnea Sinclair. Shades of Dark. New York: Bantam, 2008. Quote on page 301.
“I understand that any photograph, sound recording, motion picture, or video taken of me under this assignment is for the purpose of collecting and/or representing factual information in the interest of serving the University of California’s mission of research, education, and public service, and for promoting the public good.”
–“Assignment of Photographic, Motion Picture, Video, and Sound Recording Rights.” University of California, Berkeley. 2012.
“Jaroslav Flegr is no kook. And yet, for years, he suspected his mind had been taken over by parasites that had invaded his brain. So the prolific biologist took his science-fiction hunch into the lab. What he’s now discovering will startle you. Could tiny organisms carried by house cats be creeping into our brains, causing everything from car wrecks to schizophrenia? A biologist’s science- fiction hunch is gaining credence and shaping the emerging science of mind- controlling parasites.”
–Kathleen Mcauliffe. “How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy.” The Atlantic March 2012. Web.
“Joss [Whedon] gave me a great deal over the last ten years but his most important gifts were the very same gifts we have all been given. His stories, populated with emotional hills and valleys, which never end. Sisyphus pushes the stone up the mountain and it rolls back down and he must push it up again. Joss helped me understand that there is greatness in every part of Sisyphus’s task, and knowing this I will always look for greatness in all things. I can laugh and expect that the rock will always fall down when I reach the top of the hill, just as Serenity breaks after giving the world truth. And this makes us mighty.”
–Loni Peristere. “Mutant Enemy U.” Serenity Found. Ed. Jane Espenson. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2007. Quote on page 128.
“Living is learning and in living a good life we teach what we learn to others.”
–Loni Peristere. “Mutant Enemy U.” Serenity Found. Ed. Jane Espenson. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2007. Quote on page 117.
“The first high peaks of the Himalayas hove into view, and I nearly fell from my horse when I saw at last the great snow-capped peaks of Kanchenjunga. It was the most beautiful, most majestic sight I had ever seen, and everything I had ever known before paled in comparison to that one extraordinary horizon.”
–Deanna Raybourne. The Dark Road to Darjeeling. Ontario: Mira Books, 2010. Kindle version. Quote in chapter two.