Lazysphere Quotes

#1. The Lazysphere - a working definition - is a group of bloggers who I won't name by name, but you can spot them a mile away. Rather than create new ideas or pen thoughtful essays, they simply glom on to the latest news with another "me too" blog post.

Steve Rubel

#2. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

Haruki Murakami

#3. The players get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it, not respect. We get constantly dogged and players from other teams love to see that. That's why nobody wants to play here.

Don Mattingly

#4. The war is for the family. The battle for their children's education and their grandchildren's freedom is as real to them as if they could witness the clangs of bayonets on the field or hear the blasts of mortars in the harbor.

Oliver DeMille

#5. Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. The city is a body and a mind - a physical structure as well as a repository of ideas and information.

David Byrne

#7. The best way to lose weight is to know that you are light.

Alan Cohen

#8. Enthusiasm is everything. It must ...

Pele

#9. I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

Peabo Bryson

#10. Whatever. Everyone mispronounces my name. And, like, David Bowie was big before I was born, right?

Avril Lavigne

#11. I've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

Fay Godwin

#12. I didn't really want to inject myself into anything political. A lot of people were asking me at the time about Jay and Conan, and I hate doing anything serious.

Norm MacDonald

#13. Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.

Mark Helprin