Creighton Bernette Quotes

#1. When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our culture, sex, power and money, to win me over.

John Perkins

#2. It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

Lloyd Alexander

#3. There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Malachy McCourt

#4. It has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness and cheapness to them.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable.

Joel Coen

#6. Your cellphone has 10 sensors, and your car has 400. But your body has none - that's going to change.

Vinod Khosla

#7. Is a dream the ultimate freedom, or the ultimate prison?

Buffi Neal

#8. It was God's brilliant idea to create man, to create woman, and join them in marriage - this unique union that begins with a look and quickly escalates into shouts of joy, nakedness, uninhibited freedom, and a closeness so magical it's described as becoming one flesh.

Justin Buzzard

#9. I wish my father could be around.

Franz Wright

#10. Synergistic convergence is the most important idea we have at our disposal to prevent collapse scenarios and move forward in a nonlinear manner toward an evolutionary society.

Barbara Marx Hubbard

#11. Nonconformity is an empty goal, and rebellion against prevailing opinion merely because it is prevailing should no more be praised than acquiescence to it. Indeed, it is often a mask for cowardice, and few are more pathetic than those who flaunt outer differences to expiate their inner surrender.

William H. Whyte

#12. They understood the universe in ways we never will. We can't unlock their secrets - but now, apparently, we can destroy all they ever made. That's what I call progress.

Greg Bear

#13. Fucked-up, Insecure, Neurotic, and Emotional. (FINE)

Amy Reed

#14. Just make sure the day doesn't pass without sayin' what's in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they're gone forever.

Dan Groat

#15. There is no substance which is not a poison; all are poisonous. Only the dose determines.

Philippus Theophrastus