“Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather.”

—  Alastair Reynolds, book Pushing Ice

Source: Pushing Ice (2005), Chapter 13 (p. 216)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Such hopes now seemed ludicrous in their naivety, like trying to stop a bulldozer with a feather." by Alastair Reynolds?
Alastair Reynolds photo
Alastair Reynolds198
British novelist and astronomer 1966

Related quotes

Emily Dickinson photo

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Joe Strummer photo

“When freedom rises from the killing floor,
No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.
And no kind of army can hope to win a war
Like trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,
Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and spores
Like trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.”

Joe Strummer (1952–2002) British musician, singer, actor and songwriter

Joe Strummer and Bono, "46664", written for Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS festival in 2003.
Lyrics

“Complete honesty has nothing to do with "purity" or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.”

Clement Greenberg (1909–1994) American writer and artist

"Partisan Review 'Art Chronicle': 1952" (1952), p. 146
1960s, Art and Culture: Critical Essays, (1961)

Matt Taibbi photo

“Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.”

Matt Taibbi (1970) author and journalist

Source: The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire

Emily Dickinson photo

“"Hope" is the thing with feathers —
That perches in the soul —
And sings the tune without the words —
And never stops — at all — And sweetest — in the Gale — is heard —
And sore must be the storm —
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm — ”

Emily Dickinson Hope is a subtle Glutton

254: "Hope" is the thing with feathers —
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)

“Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Robert Louis Stevenson photo

“Youth now flees on feathered foot.”

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer

To Will H. Low, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Ben Croshaw photo

“When she meets a powerful man she's more likely to try and blow him away than blow him off. Stop that erection right now, you sick, sick boy. Stop it! Concentrate, that's how!”

Ben Croshaw (1983) English video game journalist

Why it would kick arse to be Lara Croft http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/essays/lara.htm <br class="br">Fully Ramblomatic, Essays

“Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

Woody Allen photo

“How wrong Emily Dickinson was! Hope is not "the thing with feathers." The thing with feathers has turned out to be my nephew. I must take him to a specialist in Zurich.”

Woody Allen Without Feathers

Source: Without Feathers

Related topics