Paiste 2002 Quotes

#1. (Emerson's) aphorisms tend to be chicken soup for the academic soul or gobledygook of a man who prefers the sounds of words to their meanings.

Micah Mattix

#2. Every man who is any kind of artist has a great deal of female in him. I act and give of myself as a man, but I register and receive with the soul of a woman. The only really good artists are feminine. I can't admit the existence of an artist whose dominant personality is masculine.

Orson Welles

#3. I spent nearly two years in a small village - perhaps seventy families. I've never worked harder or learned so much so fast in my life; as an anthropologist you are at work from when you open your eyes in the morning to when you close them at night.

James C. Scott

#4. If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn
they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

Leonard Cohen

#5. Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there's no mind.

Bodhidharma

#6. All of it felt like stolen time, an end rather than a beginning. But he didn't know why, and he didn't know what to do differently.

Ruthie Knox

#7. In any moment, there were so many chances for paths to cross and people to clash, come together, or do any number of things in between. It was amazing we could live at all, knowing all that could occur purely by chance. But what was the alternative?

Sarah Dessen

#8. Hell is paved with infants skulls.

Richard Baxter

#9. Let's face it: professing a deep interest in movies, the absolutely dominant global art form of the last century, is at this point like professing an interest in air. Passion is nice. Erudition is admirable. But it's like that moment when good manners cross over into meaningless etiquette.

David Rakoff

#10. Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#11. You rest now. Rest for longer than you are used to resting. Make a stillness around you, a field of peace. Your best work, the best time of your life will grow out of this peace.

Peter Heller

#12. If all these attempts fail, flag down a passing flying saucer and explain that it's vitally important you get away before your phone bill arrives.

Douglas Adams

#13. You do 1,000 interviews, 20 percent of every one is not what you said, or is twisted a little. If you multiply 20 by 1,000 you've got a lot of inaccuracies out there.

Steven Seagal

#14. A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist.

Ronald Reagan

#15. In any dispute, each side thinks it's in the right and the other side is demons.

Steven Pinker