Idris Shah Quotes

#1. Scientists are actually preoccupied with accomplishment. So they are focused on whether they can do something. They never stop to ask if they should do something.

Michael Crichton

#2. I have yet to see a death case among the dozen coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial ... People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#3. Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.

Raymond Carver

#4. I used to believe that Dad could do anything, save me from anything. But he can't, he's just a man.

Jenny Downham

#5. The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. For a beach bum you're not very chill," said Benny.
Bob frowned. "This beach bum is a retired death god who is getting a little agitated," he said.

Adam Christopher

#7. Freedom is not a tea party, India. Freedom is a war.

Salman Rushdie

#8. When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

Juliana Hatfield

#9. Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Ben Kingsley

#10. When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

Jackson Pollock

#11. In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#12. The blinding Hiroshima flash ... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

Paul Virilio

#13. We're all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city.

Corey Ann Haydu

#14. For students, the evolution-creation discussion can be a useful exercise, for it can help develop their critical thinking skills.

Ken Ham