Ghosn Issa Quotes

#1. Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go into their aura. That is the issue. Keep your meditation pristine, unalloyed.

Frederick Lenz

#2. The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

Gael Garcia Bernal

#3. It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#4. There's a basic kind of tension here. It's between those who say, I'd like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that's an economically productive thing for me to do.

Bruce Babbitt

#5. What's here doesn't please you,
what's far off you crave.
Anne Carson, from Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides

Anne Carson

#6. In 1911, Edgar Rice Burroughs, having failed at everything else, decided to write a novel. He was then in his mid-thirties, married with two children, barely supporting his family as the agent for a pencil-sharpener business.

Michael Dirda

#7. I attended TED in 2007 and 2008, the last two years the conference was held in Monterey.

Maria Semple

#8. What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.

Barry Schwartz

#9. It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.

Soren Kierkegaard

#10. Playing two months or more in one city meant new songs all the time. If people paid their dimes to see and hear Sophie Tucker, they didn't want to hear the same songs over and over or see the same clothes.

Sophie Tucker

#11. Children are our greatest natural resource.

Herbert Hoover

#12. In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations.

Noam Chomsky

#13. Come, we burn daylight, ho!

William Shakespeare

#14. Gingrich - Primary mission, Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization, Leader of the civilizing forces.

Newt Gingrich

#15. I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

Liam Neeson