Loserlympics Quotes

#1. Kind of like winning the fifty-meter ass-stroke in the Loserlympics

J.R. Ward

#2. For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.

John Darnielle

#3. What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Bono

#4. Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

Deepak Chopra

#5. Machines need to talk easily to one another in order to better serve people.

Nicholas Negroponte

#6. Herein fail not at your peril.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#7. For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Ramana Maharshi

#8. Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful.

Gary Keller

#10. When you do a film like 'My Soul to Take,' and people think it sucks, that hurts. We put a lot of work into it, and it's a good film, but you go on.

Wes Craven

#11. Men who pursue a multitude of women fit neatly into two categories. Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a woman in all women. Others are prompted by a desire to possess the endless variety of the objective female in the world.

Milan Kundera

#12. I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it.

Eric Balfour

#13. And just what is Antoine Roquentin? An abstraction. A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness. Antoine Roquentin . . . and suddenly the "I" pales, pales, and fades out. Lucid,

Jean-Paul Sartre

#14. Most people are blind to magic. They move through a blank and empty world. They're bored with their lives, and there's nothing they can do about it. They're eaten alive by longing, and they're dead before they die.

Lev Grossman

#15. I like the Dodgers because my dad does - wait, no, not the Dodgers. Strike me down! The Yankees. I like the Yankees.

Mamie Gummer