Cirlot Dictionary Quotes

#1. She knew why the Colonel had hated talking about the old days. Because the moment you looked back, and began to make your tally, you were done for.

Philipp Meyer

#2. I kind of took you for granted. Your love for me was permanent. Why should I have worried about losing you?

Piper Shelly

#3. Hitler was the first superstar.

David Bowie

#4. Beans, beans, they're good for your heart," I said cheerily, seizing the opening. "The more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel - so let's have beans for every meal!

Diana Gabaldon

#5. A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.

Parker J. Palmer

#6. I've heard it said that God made all men, but Samuel Colt made all men equal.
We'd see what Mr. Colt could do for a woman.

Cherie Priest

#7. God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often.

Taylor Caldwell

#8. I will say, I think it odd that I am loved by one for a kindness I never did, and reviled by so many for my finest act.

George R R Martin

#9. The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the heart of Being.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#10. These capacities for randomness may have been amplified into human creativity through sexual and social selection.

Geoffrey Miller

#11. Be sure that head and heart were laid
In wisdom down, content to die.
Be sure he faced the Starless Sky
Unduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.
("The Passing of Bierce")

George Sterling

#12. There was a beautiful time...

Sylvia Plath

#13. Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.

Bob Feller

#14. Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

Dave McClure

#15. Before movies, memory unspooled differently in the mind, trailing off in dust-blasted fade-out rather than spliced-together flashback; before photography, memory rippled like a reflection on water's surface, less precise but more profoundly true.

Steve Erickson