Melette Alexander Quotes

#1. Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact.

Richard Mitchell

#2. If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Robert Reich

#3. When it broke out in the mid 1990s, the web was society's first at-scale digital artifact. It spread in orders of ten, first thousands, then millions, then hundreds of millions of pages - and on it went, to the billions it now encompasses.

John Battelle

#4. I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

George Lucas

#5. I release you, my beautiful and terrible fear. I release you. You were my beloved and hate twin, but now, I don't know you as myself

Joy Harjo

#6. Hoop nodded. "Everything's good."
"For now," Ripley said. "Only for now. Nothing stays good for long. Not ever.

Tim Lebbon

#7. I always told myself I didn't do it because I don't hold with hitting women. I still don't. But when a person-man or woman-turns into a dog and begins to bite, someone has to shy it off.

Stephen King

#8. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

Joan Didion

#9. The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity;

Paulo Freire

#10. Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched - love for instance - we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

Virginia Woolf

#11. My kids are growing up and it's hard to accept they are their own person and they're independent.

Ray Romano

#12. My anger subsides, I'd like to pee.

Samuel Beckett