Paddle Wheel Quotes

#1. When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland.
-'City of Robots',1986

Umberto Eco

#2. Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

Allan Kaprow

#3. If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do.

Brian Tracy

#4. I have a sneaking suspicion that you're not 100% committed to your Oreo diet.

Becky Albertalli

#5. People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

Ian Fleming

#6. Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

John Lydon

#7. Some people say a person receives a position in this church through revelation, and others say they get it through inspiration, but I say they get it through relation. If I hadn't been related to Heber C. Kimball I wouldn't have been a damn thing in this church.

J. Golden Kimball

#8. Mother is the home we come from.
She is nature, soil, ocean.

Erich Fromm

#9. Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.

William S. Burroughs