Empsons Stockbridge Quotes

#1. I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning.

Albert Camus

#2. One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that) but that it does provide you a refuge for definitions.

T. E. Hulme

#3. The weird people are the best ones! All of my friends are weird.

Louise Hay

#4. Don't be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God's commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

David B. Haight

#5. For a second
a second that lasts infinite seconds
he turns his face away from the wind to meet my eye. He smiles, he smiles without worrying about the gap in his teeth, he smiles in a way that I know: he is free.

Kate Ellison

#6. C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.

Dennis Ritchie

#7. It's really not fun to have seen a movie that you want to talk about, and you can't find anyone else who's seen it.

Anita Elberse

#8. It is not for us ... to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up our own Western culture.

Carl Jung

#9. Evolution, and the selection of reproduction-worthy genes that drives it, is the opposite of random. It is a sieve that living things have to pass through successfully, or we never see them again.

Bill Nye

#10. Everyone is an abused child, if you think about what governments do.

Tim Roth

#11. I think intellectualism can be a barrier to reading. The point of a book - song, film, whatever - is to FEEL it. That's why we're here, no?

Matt Haig

#12. Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

Dan Quayle

#13. If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

John Phillips

#14. I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

Natasha Richardson

#15. I'm trying to take pictures of less and less.

Joel Sternfeld