Quotes About Absent Mindedness

#1. Solitude devastates me; company oppresses me. The presence of another person derails my thoughts; I dream of the other's presence with a strange absent-mindedness that no amount of my analytical scrutiny can define.

Fernando Pessoa

#2. The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting, For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering. And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line, Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.

Nathalia Crane

#3. The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

Saul Bellow

#4. People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I'm learning as I go.

Paul Simon

#5. Achilles absent was Achilles still!

Homer

#6. The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs.

Alan Watts

#7. A Nation's best defense is an educated citizenry

Thomas Jefferson

#8. The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to radiation exposures.

Steven Magee

#9. Never speak ill of an absent friend.

Plautus

#10. A man can only be happy following his own inmost need.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. He's like everybody else in television. And Hollywood. And Broadway. He thinks everything sentimental is tender, everything brutal is a slice of realism and that everything that runs into physical violence is a legitimate climax to something that isn't even-

J.D. Salinger

#12. He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.

William Gibson

#13. In the beginning, there were Real Programmers.

Eric S. Raymond