Modality Quotes

#1. You would be better off having nobody than the wrong somebody. (On marrying for the wrong reasons.)

Joyce Meyer

#2. I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

William Gibson

#3. The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

Charles Olson

#4. When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.

Gary Zukav

#5. Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

James Madison

#7. -To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.

Emil Cioran

#8. I'll see Naomi Wolf on television periodically, I have nothing against her and what she says, but I'll feel that she's a politician, like she's got an agenda to get across and that she doesn't always say what's really true or exactly what she feels.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#9. Fuck the epistemic modality; this is alethic modality we're talking now, not factuality but possibility.

Hal Duncan

#10. I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

William Gibson

#11. There is no shame in not knowing your history, the shame lies in not finding out.

Habeeb Akande

#12. Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn't a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.

Moby

#13. Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

Terence McKenna

#14. Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?

Malcolm Bradbury

#15. Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small.

J. Ruth Gendler

#16. I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.

Terence McKenna

#17. You have heard, no doubt, those tales in which the souls of the dead are said to walk abroad, but did you ever hear tell of the soul of a living person walking, split asunder from its mortal body?

K.B. Goddard

#18. A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about.

Terence McKenna

#19. Dizzy, Duke and Charlie Parker were the greatest jazz legends of all time.

Milt Jackson

#20. It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

Terence McKenna

#21. I do believe that, in time, doctors - both alternative and orthodox - will begin using whatever is the highest best treatment for their patients, regardless of the modality.

Brandon Bays