Action Quote by James Gleick

Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them…

— Aldous Huxley

“A billion hours ago, modern Homo sapiens emerged. A billion minutes ago, Christianity began. A billion seconds ago, the IBM personal computer was released.…

— Laszlo Bock

The wee little people that live in my head won't let Gulliver go.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The minute we became a global society, especially now that we're all connected up with the Internet, people wanted to believe in something a…

— Michael T. Weiss

The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.

— Paul Di Filippo

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels.

— Jonathan Swift

It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our…

— Alfred Bester

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.

— Leigh Hunt

“That was thirteen hundred years ago. This is really no improvement upon the work of the Roman augurs. Has the trade of interpreting the…

— Mark Twain

“For after all the great religions have been preached and expounded, or have been revealed by brillant scholars, or have been written in fine…

— Helene Lapaire Justus

Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

— Jean de la Bruyere