Flickering Screen Quotes

#1. One of the charges made against me is that I lived in the same house with my former husband, Dr. Woodhull, and my present husband, Col. Blood. The fact is a fact.

Victoria Woodhull

#2. Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

Gregory Chaitin

#3. When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

Jung Chang

#4. One answer to the transitory nature of imperial rule, in short, is that there is a Newtonian third law of empires. The exercise of imperial power generates an opposite and equal reaction among those affected by it, until they so reorganize themselves as to blunt the imperial edge.

Peter Heather

#5. The Universe has no intention.

Feliz Piez

#6. Irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision; it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.

Ellen Glasgow

#7. We can influence the future but not see it.

Stewart Brand

#8. Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.

Camille Paglia

#9. Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

Adyashanti

#10. These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

Caleb Cushing

#11. The wisest man knows he know nothing.

A. Lee Martinez

#12. If revenge is a dish best served cold, then knowledge is a dish best left untouched.

Jill Archer

#13. You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can.

Muriel Spark

#14. I know I'm being a pain in the ass, Sascha darling, but humor me. I'm working on letting go -I promise our kid will be a wild savage exactly like Roman and Julian.

Nalini Singh

#15. In order to change your results you have to change your thoughts, feelings, and actions to get the desired outcome you're looking for.

E.N. Richardson

#16. What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

Tom Hanks

#17. The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, "This is love." God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, "This is love.

Joshua Harris