“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.” PeopleHumansHardFallPracticeStyleWalkingMountainAppreciateLifetimeManageSkullsUnstable Author:Randall Munroe
“Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.” PeopleMenMatterFactsAbleYoungOrderFallImaginationFireStyleGeniusHighestMetaphorSatisfiedHeightReasonableComparisonCarrieSublimeBoundlessPrecisionMatter Of FactAntithesisHyperbole Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“When work goes out of style we may expect to see civilization totter and fall.” MayFallWorkStyleCivilization Author:John D. Rockefeller
“New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and perhaps somebody's castle-roof perforated.” WorldIdeasFallStyleThis WorldOriginalityFlashNew IdeasRoofCastlesExplosionsMeteors Author:Sarah Bernhardt