Maru Quotes

#1. Who's they?" Ozzie asked. The guy's wild blond hair and Star Trek T-shirt - it read I beat the Kobayashi Maru - shouted of his secure position in the upper echelons of Geekdom as loudly as the three microsized laptops open in front of him. "Official

Julie Ann Walker

#2. You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

Grenville Kleiser

#3. Listen, here's what I'd like to do: I'd like to live in a trailer and play records all night.

Charles Portis

#4. Henry said, and sat up. His hands clawed at the air, as if for holds which only Henry could see. His gouged eye leaked and dribbled; its bottom arc now bulged pregnantly down onto his cheek. He looked around, saw Eddie shrinking back against the wall, and tried

Stephen King

#5. If I were a headmaster, I would get rid of the history teacher and get a chocolate teacher instead and my pupils would study a subject that affected all of them.

Roald Dahl

#6. If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. Continue your quest by taking the test
Yes, but what test? What test was I supposed to take? The Kobayashi Maru? The Pepsi Challenge? Could the clue have been any more vague?

Ernest Cline

#8. I would happily die with a bottle of white Burgundy in my mouth,

Julia Child

#9. Being forced to sit between my mortal enemy and my ex-girlfriend every afternoon made seventh-period math feel like my own private Kobayashi Maru, a brutal no-win scenario designed to test my emotional fortitude.

Ernest Cline

#10. To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru ... sucks to be you.

Peter David

#11. I'm more likely to strike up a conversation with a stranger than to try any antic or pickup lines.

Clayton Snyder

#12. That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Amitav Ghosh

#13. We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

Terry Crisp

#14. Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

Theodor W. Adorno

#15. Be afraid of a dignified man when he is hungry and a wicked man when his belly is full.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#16. A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

John Hagee

#17. The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.

Paul Watson