Mikkola Birmingham Quotes

#1. You are not your body. It is just something you wear for a while, because living in the earthplane is infinitely more meaningful and more involved if you are encased in its trappings and subject to its rules.

P.M.H. Atwater

#2. [Perl] gives you the STDERR filehandle so that your program can make snide comments off to the side while it transforms (or attempts to transform) your input into your output.

Larry Wall

#3. You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'
IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.
'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.
IT'S EDUCATIONAL.
'What if she cuts herself?'
THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON.

Terry Pratchett

#4. When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

Helen Hayes

#5. You put God first in your life and didn't try to gain everything for yourself, and now God has given you your heart's desire.

M.H. Strom

#6. And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

Terence McKenna

#7. The muse in charge of fantasy wears good, sensible shoes.

Lloyd Alexander

#8. Going out hanging out with the troops, and you know it's kind of all summed up in the TV show, I don't what else I can say about it. It's a great thing to do, something I'm definitely proud of.

Kid Rock

#9. Oh, Alexia. I do not mean to be forward, but I really must venture: I simply loathe Mr. Tunstell.

Gail Carriger

#10. I can live without a computer. My assistant checks my e-mails.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#11. We have a saying, where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.

Ann Leckie

#12. A diamond is a lump of coal that did well under pressure

Proverb

#13. Adolescence is the same tragedy being performed again and again. The only things that change are the stage props.

Lindsey Leavitt

#14. I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

George Herbert Palmer