Ezra Prospect Quotes

#1. Damn right I voted for him. But if I'd known then what I know now, I wouldn't have cast a vote - I'd have cast a brick.

John Brunner

#2. Modern definitions of truth, such as those as pragmatism and instrumentalism, which are practical rather than contemplative, are inspired by industrialisation as opposed to aristocracy.

Bertrand Russell

#3. Medieval alchemists, despite their lust for gold, considered mercury the most potent and poetic substance in the universe. As a child, I would have agreed with them.

Sam Kean

#4. A president who justifies his actions to the public might be induced to change them. A president who justifies his actions to himself, believing that he has the truth, is impervious to self-correction.

Carol Tavris

#5. If you find yourself focusing on negative scenarios, ask us angels to transmute this fearful energy into love.

Doreen Virtue

#6. The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.'
He does not always come away unscathed from
his page, but like the poor, he knows how to
make use of an olive's eternity.

Rene Char

#7. And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...

Richard Powers

#8. All great programmers learn the same way. They poke the box. They code something and see what the computer does. They change it and see what the computer does. They repeat the process again and again until they figure out how the box works.

Seth Godin

#9. Life, thought the naked man, was a hell, with rare moments recalling some ancient paradise.

Italo Calvino

#10. We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

Eric Hoffer

#11. My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.

Brion James