Cloisterd Quotes

#1. There we did begin, Cloisterd in the waterfall, Our summer discipline.

Matsuo Basho

#2. I don't want to stir up a can of worms.

Alan Brazil

#3. The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

W. H. Auden

#4. Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

Paul Dickson

#5. Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#6. I got on the scale and I weighed around 203. I'm only 5'7. I was about to turn 30, and I wasn't active anymore. So I started working with a nutritionist and a trainer. I played basketball twice a week. And soon it all just became a habit for me. I became addicted to something good for a change.

Jerry Ferrara

#7. The Orwellian vision was about state-sponsored surveillance. Now it's not just the state, it's your nosy neighbor, your ex-spouse and people who want to spam you.

Howard Rheingold

#8. Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?

Mary Shelley

#9. He that taketh not his cross and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

Pope Urban II

#10. I find it quite useful to think of a free-market economy - or partly free market economy - as sort of the equivalent of an ecosystem. Just as animals flourish in niches, people who specialize in some narrow niche can do very well.

Charlie Munger