Portable Putter Quotes

#1. To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

Rebecca Solnit

#2. Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

Octavia Butler

#3. There is no paradox. There is only irony.

Philip K. Jason

#4. My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Simon Van Booy

#6. Play no fiddle with me, Miss Oh So
Young and Pretty!

Stephen King

#7. The double chin's not good for the red carpet.

Missy Elliott

#8. Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.

Milton H. Erickson

#9. I don't think anybody in my family meant there to be any pressure for me to write. But our parents were incredibly verbal and wrote for a living. The house was full of books, and we all grew up steeped in language. I mean, our mother recited poetry at the dinner table.

Hallie Ephron

#10. The Scriptures were not given to increase our knowledge, but to change our lives.

Dwight L. Moody

#11. Dignity is worth nothing unless you earn it, unless you are willing to pay a price for it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#12. To accuse nations (not leaders or governments) is the hallmark of the demo-nationalist of the nineteenth or twentieth centuries; it leads to endless hatreds, feelings of revenge, misunderstandings, and frictions. It is the surest guarantee for perpetual mass wars.

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

#13. Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Arnold Bennett