Maercker Point Quotes

#1. Just because all your friends are doing it, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Don't be a blind follower, you don't know where you're going.

Lik Hock Yap

#2. This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#3. People came to the desert because the stars were in the desert, and the stars had yet to be corrupted by man ... The stars, it seemed, would crush man in a scenic, gravitational panorama before man would ever corrupt the stars.

Rick Moody

#4. Lay down your cynicism, and believe in the transformational power of love.

Bryant McGill

#5. Our neighbors were so excited when a black family moved in that they got them a welcome basket with the first three seasons of The Cosby Show on DVD.

Flynn Meaney

#6. I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.

Christopher Plummer

#7. Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.

Brene Brown

#8. Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.

Vittorio Alfieri

#9. I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.

Alice Hoffman

#10. I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.

Moby

#11. Read when you can.
Teach when you ought.
Learn when you must.
Apply when you should.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity,
as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame

Charles Caleb Colton

#13. Solid ground beneath his feet, dirt under his fingernails, the husbandry of growing things, bulbs and roots, seeds and shoots, this had been his world.

Salman Rushdie

#14. It takes too much energy to hate.

Cory Booker

#15. Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.

Michael Azerrad