Lobsang Quotes

#1. Of all their eccentricities, Sally most ferociously mocked the habit Lobsang and Joshua had developed of watching old movies in the bowels of the Mark Twain. (Joshua was glad she hadn't been on board when the two of them had dressed up for The Blues Brothers.)

Terry Pratchett

#2. I want to speak to you, Lobsang. Not to a voice in the air. A face I can punch.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The hymn being sung had been 'Morning Has Broken', with a discarded ambulant unit of Lobsang's playing the Rick Wakeman piano accompaniment, and pretty soulfully too. And

Terry Pratchett

#4. Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.

David Michie

#5. We could try the Turin test," said Lobsang.
"Oh, machines have been able to pass the Turing test for years."
"No, the Turin test. We both pray for an hour, and see if God can tell the difference.

Stephen Baxter

#6. Songs can be very expressive, Lobsang. You can sing your homesickness.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.

Donald Miller

#8. Some of us are so terribly broken.

Vannary Rang

#9. Unfortunately, modern man has become so focused on harnessing nature's resources that he has forgotten how to learn from them. If you let them, however, the elements of nature will teach you as they have taught me.

Anasazi Foundation

#10. Your Christians, whom one persecutes in vain, have something in them that surpasses the human. They lead a life of such innocence,that the heavens owe them some recognition: that they arise the stronger the more they are beaten down is hardly the result of common virtues.

Pierre Corneille

#11. When you die, i.e., when your physical body is finished with this earth ... and your astral entity goes on to the astral world ... it has to stand alone and answer for successes and failures.

Lobsang Rampa

#12. I was scared," she said, and then uttered a shaky little laugh. "I guess you don't know what scared is until one of your kids screams in the dark." "Ugh,

Stephen King

#13. Mental slavery is worst than physical slavery

Dave Hockaday

#14. It's never too early for a cocktail.

Noel Coward

#15. The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

John Calvin

#16. Everything is just electricity and magnetism; everything is only an illusion. The reality is in the spiritual plane.

Lobsang Rampa

#17. We have a rule that if you check in code, you have to maintain it. So I mostly code on the side. I don't check in code anymore.

Mark Zuckerberg

#18. I get invited to a lot more glamorous parties since I've been in 'Downton Abbey,' which has made me much more fashion conscious.

Lesley Nicol