Dittmann Laboratory Quotes

#1. The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

William Hazlitt

#2. And you can sit out here in the hour before dawn, boy, and think virtuous thoughts and tell yourself how noble you are and all that shit, and you are going to lay back and hang on to the money, because that is the way the world keeps score. Not your way. Not lately.

John D. MacDonald

#3. In the night I come to you and it seems a shame
to waste my deepest shudders on a wall of a man.

Carolyn Forche

#4. Thought nourishes, sustains and gives continuity to fear and pleasure.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#5. When the power falls on me, it buzzes in the warm, dark spaces of my skull. It stings like nettles at the tips of my fingers. The power is a fever I have felt since early childhood, a heat in the blood that leaves me flushed and unsteady, dreaming in daylight.

Victoria Lamb

#6. They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful ... and deadly.

Frank Scoblete

#7. Each night I lie awake and stare up at the stars and think, what the hell happened to my ceiling.

Robert Paul

#8. Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. [She] looks gorgeous, wearing the look of a mother whose kids are finally starting to grow up. She can take care of herself now, she can get her hair done and get a decent night's sleep.

Darien Gee

#10. [Smiley contemplates graffiti:]'Punk is destructive. Society does not need it.' The assertion caused him a moment's indecision. 'Oh, but society does,' he wanted to reply; 'society is an association of minorities.

John Le Carre

#11. "Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

Eckhart Tolle