Fontenoy Road Quotes

#1. It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

Gertrude Stein

#2. Patternicity is the idea that humans are really talented at finding nonexistent patterns in random noise.

A. J. Jacobs

#3. I told you I wouldn't forget you...and as I'm sure you remember, the black rose is you.

Karen E. Taylor

#4. There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

Christopher Alexander

#5. My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house ... I had a little attitude.

Debi Mazar

#6. Practice love, compassion and forgiveness. Anger is nothing but an anchor that keeps you from moving forward.

Abby Fabiaschi

#7. I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

Louis Garrel

#8. Someday, hopefully very soon, 'diving within' as a preparation for learning and as a tool for developing the creative potential of the mind will be a standard part of every school's curriculum.

David Lynch

#9. Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.

Thomas Merton

#10. I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.

George Harrison

#11. I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

Michel De Montaigne

#12. Twitter ... can ruin your life.

Rita Ora

#13. Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."

Bill Gates