Intelligently Retarded Quotes

#1. Health is the first benefit. Content is the first fortune. Friendliness is the first kindness. Nirvana is the first happiness.

Gautama Buddha

#2. Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

#3. New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse ...

Harry Connick Jr.

#4. I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.

John Ridley

#5. We are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Gloria Steinem

#6. He who puts on a religious demeanor abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite.

Thomas Brooks

#7. Life need not be a story, but it does need to be an adventure.

Douglas Coupland

#8. Good criticism is very rare and always precious.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. Become alert about desire and non-attachment begins to appear. This is not to be made to happen, it follows naturally from awareness of attachment. Each one of us has to become aware of his attachments, and keep being so! Nothing should be done unconsciously.

Rajneesh

#10. But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it ... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.

Roger Sessions

#11. I'm not saying I'm against evolution. It's okay. Here's the story on reptiles, however. Think this over. They come up on

William Peter Blatty

#12. a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.

William Gibson