Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz Quotes

#1. Self-trust is so important. When you launch on a story, make your neck loose, feel free, good-natured. And be lazy. Feel that you are going to throw it away. Try writing utterly unplanned stories and see what comes out.

Brenda Ueland

#2. I once tried to raise two tomato plants, and they died in spite of the fact I fertilized them every morning. Duh.

Clyde Edgerton

#3. Can you actually go through life without labeling what happens to you as good or bad? Sure you can. You have to train yourself to do this. You have been conditioned to think of things as bad or good. You can de-condition yourself. It is neither easy nor fast but it is possible.

Srikumar Rao

#4. The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us.

Ernst Kretschmer

#5. The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.

Aldous Huxley

#6. Let it be fact, one feels, or let it be fiction; the imagination will not serve under two masters simultaneously.

Virginia Woolf

#7. The ultimate goal of technology, the telos of techne, is to replace a natural world that's indifferent to our wishes - a world of hurricanes and hardships and breakable hearts, a world of resistance - with a world so responsive to our wishes as to be, effectively, a mere extension of the self.

Jonathan Franzen

#8. The individual and social instincts, - the one a most potent factor for individual endeavor, for growth, aspiration, self-realization; the other an equally potent factor for mutual helpfulness and social well-being.

Emma Goldman

#9. He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Immanuel Kant

#10. I was just racing day by day. With Niki [Lauda], every race was to be on the top. He programmed his life to be champion. I enjoyed life. That was the maximum for me ...

Clay Regazzoni

#11. Journey to Excellence involve identifying the right things, at the right time, and to act upon them with the right way to achieve desired measurable outcome.

Bharat Shah

#12. Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.

Chico Buarque

#13. The youth and cheerfulness of morning are in happy analogy, and of powerful operation; and if the distress be not poignant enough to keep the eyes unclosed, they will be sure to open to sensations of softened pain and brighter hope.

Jane Austen

#14. For a dreamer, pain and pleasure are synonyms.

Manoj Arora

#15. She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy
I said 'Be careful his bowtie is really a camera'

Paul Simon