Intertemporal Quotes

#1. If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens - men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls.

Arthur Capper

#2. All too easily, we confuse the world as we symbolize it with the world as it is. As semanticist Alfred Korzybski used to say, it is an urgent necessity to distinguish between the map and the territory and, he might have added, between the flag and the country.

Alan W. Watts

#3. Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

Elmer Diktonius

#4. Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

James MacArthur

#5. Amor deliria nervosa. The deadliest of all deadly things.

Lauren Oliver

#6. In England, even the poorest of people believe that they have rights; that is very different from what satisfies the poor in other lands.

Simon Heffer

#7. To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

Jethro Tull

#8. Who will lie on her back and let her last breath curl up to the ceiling as a curse upon the invaders.

Anthony Doerr

#9. We learned a verse of this and that and we were having fun with the songs. Tommy would make up stories to go along with them and I would yell at him, 'Hey, stupid, that's not right,' and he was like a silly kid trying to impress.

Dick Smothers

#10. To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

Noam Chomsky

#11. Life is not a submarine.

Anne Lamott

#12. People don't buy what you do; they buy how it makes them feel.

Bernadette Jiwa

#13. The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.

Andy Garcia

#14. Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.

Rob Thomas

#15. And that was despite the fact that she wasn't really here. I could see stars through her on the other side, although she wasn't a ghost. I knew ghosts. It was more like she was on an intertemporal version of Skype.

Karen Chance

#16. He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

Christopher Moore