Impended Def Quotes

#1. The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. Wilson showed that the cognitive losses from multitasking are even greater than the cognitive losses from pot smoking.

Daniel J. Levitin

#3. Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.

Karl Rove

#4. Light is the magician of the cosmos.

Bruce Watson

#5. This is the place I finally learned what it meant
to dance alone to the song you put in my chest.
Thanks for the symphony.
I can still hear it when I think of you,
and it is so much like remembering.

Caitlyn Siehl

#6. I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him. I think he's a hugely underrated actor in Hollywood.

Tyler Perry

#7. I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire.

Francis Ray

#8. After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines.

Joseph Barbera

#9. It's getting harder and harder to feel inspired to spend six months on a record.

Nikki Sixx

#10. If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. We account for one-sixth of the forces of gravity we see in the universe. There is no known objects accounting for most of the effective gravity in the universe. Something is making stuff move that is not anything we have ever touched.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. The next presumption is always valid: one's knowledge corresponds to
one's intellectual capacity.

Eraldo Banovac

#13. The term "incorporeal" is properly applied only to the void, which cannot act or be acted on. Since the soul can act and be acted upon, it is corporeal.

Epicurus

#14. Land in Hawaii is money. What I'm talking about here is ceded land - land that belonged to the kingdom and was ceded to the republic and then to the state when we achieved statehood.

Neil Abercrombie

#15. I think spiritualism, mesmerism, the mental healing movement, provided some people with the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

Mitch Horowitz