Quote by China Miéville Download Open image ““New Crobuzon was a city unconvinced by gravity.”” — China Miéville ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“There once was a beautiful young woman from the city. She told everyone that she did not believe in gravity. She jumped off a… — Robert Chad Canter Copy Share Image
“Lots of unbelievable things happened. Every day. Things like gravity.” — Myra McEntire Copy Share Image
“I've no interest in this city. I do not want to live in a curio , Johannes. This is a sideshow! This is something… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“sometimes, when the overwhelming weight of gravity had you pinned to the Earth, two hours of simple conversation with no pressure to pretend was… — Aly Martinez Copy Share Image
“All I ask, Madam, is to share with thee a common center of gravity.” — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
“I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Houses built on bridges are scandals. A bridge wants to not be. If it could choose its shape, a bridge would be no shape,” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“Either way, it is a curio of the moment that hard-left advocates of ‘all power to the soviets’ were delegated by a soviet opponent… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
It felt like being a child again, though it was not. Being a child is like nothing. It's only being. Later, when we think… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
“We have to establish our credentials as an explorocracy; so to survive and rule ourselves, we have to explore.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“almanacs, or what was left of them when those pages making incorrect predictions and offering unhelpful advice had been torn out.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image