Planetary Rights Education Quotes

#1. I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional frame of mind. In a paradoxical way, this leaves one free of the subject of the obsession.

J.G. Ballard

#2. Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.

Bob Dylan

#3. When I pointed out this fallacy in her thought process, however, all she said was, "Just do it," only not the way they say it in Nike ads. She said it the way the Wicked Witch of the West said it to the winged monkeys when she sent them out to kill Dorothy and her little dog, too.

Jenny Carroll

#4. A Zendo is not a peaceful haven
but a furnace room for the combustion
of our egotistical delusions.

Eido Shimano Roshi

#5. First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Barbara Walters

#6. The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Kofi Annan

#7. He whispered, "Life." And so she lived. Is living still. Will go on living, to the end of that whisper.

Emily Ruskovich

#8. The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.

Thomas A. Edison

#9. There is no security as undemanding and comfortable as the kind you feel among friends.

Peter Bodo

#10. I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

Shirley Temple

#11. All great poets have been men of great knowledge.

William C. Bryant

#12. The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.

Corliss Lamont