Extras Genie Quotes

#1. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!

Swami Vivekananda

#2. what becomes of the shepherd / when the sheep are cannibals?

Ocean Vuong

#3. I've been writing and making my own music for a long time.

Patti Scialfa

#4. The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Language is not a protocol legislated by an authority but rather a wiki that pools the contributions of millions of writers and speakers, who ceaselessly bend the language to their needs and who inexorably age, die, and get replaced by their children, who adapt the language in their turn.

Steven Pinker

#7. Here, then, is the story of algebra. It all began in the remote past, with a simple turn of thought from the declarative to the interrogative, from "this plus this equals this" to "this plus what equals this?

Anonymous

#8. Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

Clifton Fadiman

#9. And the reason parenting is becoming increasingly crucial is that we now live in a world that is more fucked up than Peter O'Toole on his birthday.

Dennis Miller

#10. All life was lived within the close proximity of tragedy.

Fran Seen

#11. Thus, hanging around in our towels (and those weird disposable underpants) was no big deal.

Ann Benjamin

#12. I started playing professional basketball in 1971, and I played professionally for five seasons before going to Philadelphia.

Julius Erving

#13. Laughter, along with madness, seemed to be the only way out, the emergency exit for humans.

Matt Haig

#14. Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

Joe Slovo