Availed Oneself Quotes

#1. I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

William Gibson

#2. There is nothing more incredible and moving and appealing than good music, and it cannot always be reduced to a story, to exposition. It's so much more abstract and brilliant.

Sufjan Stevens

#3. Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

Mae West

#4. I'm not much of a cake person.

Daniel Radcliffe

#5. One feels as if it could never, never be less. And yet all griefs, when there is no bitterness in them, are soothed down by time.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#6. You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie.

Ice Cube

#7. Some things are worth the danger, aren't they? I don't believe anyone should be allowed to dictate what I read or who my friends are. It gives me pleasure t know that I can thwart the Brotherhood in some small way.

Jessica Spotswood

#8. The thing about death is that it's embarrassing. No one wants to focus on it for very long. We're happy to talk about sex all day long but no one wants to talk about the moment where it all ends.

Laurel Nakadate

#9. My girlfriend's dad runs the Prostate Centre on Wimpole St. in London, and he's chairman of Prostate U.K., which I think is the second-largest prostate cancer charity in Britain.

Christian Cooke

#10. Idols are often good things that we have made into ultimate things.

Timothy Keller

#11. Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.

Nicole Ari Parker

#12. All normal people, I added as an after thought, had more or less desired the death of those they loved, at some point or another.

Albert Camus

#13. The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.

T.F. Hodge

#14. In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. The point is that there is tremendous hypocrisy among the Christian right. And I think that Christian voters should start looking at global warming and extreme poverty as a religious issue that speaks to the culture of life.

Al Franken