Progrethth Quotes

#1. Pity about all that publicity when the hamster smashed its way out of its treadmill and ate that man's leg before flying away, but that was Progrethth for you.

Terry Pratchett

#2. The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

Andre Malraux

#3. You were at school and you were pimply and no one wanted to know you. You get into a group and you've got thousands of chicks there.

Eric Clapton

#4. My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

Joanne Harris

#5. We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Chuck Klosterman

#6. Somehow the notion has been loosed that nature is hostile to man or that her ways are offensive or slovenly, so that every step of progress is measured by how far we have altered these. Nothing short of a recovery of the ancient virtue of pietas can absolve man from this sin.

Richard M. Weaver

#7. How do you know what people value? Well, you watch what they buy. How do we know what products to create? Well, it's based on what they value.

Peter Senge

#8. Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Erich Fromm

#9. It is a scene of Satyrs and Nymphs, of pursuits and captures, provocative resistances followed by the enthusiastic surrender of lips to bearded lips, of panting bosoms to the impatience of rough hands, the whole accompanied by a babel of shouting, squealing and shrill laughter

Aldous Huxley

#10. The myth of the detached manipulator and compliant crowd has, since the Twenties, also been abundantly re-echoed by academic students of mass suasion.

Edward L. Bernays

#11. But I am too stupid to be convinced by him.

Plato

#12. We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

Werner Herzog

#13. You're not listening to the Zen master, what he is saying outwardly, but even more importantly ... what he is saying inwardly.

Frederick Lenz