Quotes About Reis

#1. Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book.

Christine Gregoire

#2. I'm not embarrassed by any of my music. I'll even own up to the old Backstreet Boys albums.

Jessie Usher

#3. The basic approach of positioning is not to create something new and different, but to manipulate what's already up there in the mind, to retie the connections that already exist.

Al Reis

#4. He possesses the minimum sensibility necessary for his intelligence not to be merely mathematical, the minimum a human being needs so that it can be proven with a thermometer that he's not dead.

Alvaro De Campos

#5. He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate

Salman Rushdie

#6. The horse does not eat cucumber salad

Johann Philipp Reis

#7. They were aware that this day they would represent their entire race in its greatest moment, but they conducted themselves calmly and quietly as they seated themselves deferentially before the desk,

Douglas Adams

#8. I didn't want to stop before my time was up.

Misty May-Treanor

#9. Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

Johann Philipp Reis

#10. Wise is he who is satisfied with the spectacle of the world.

Ricardo Reis

#11. What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the Mandela, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.

Terence McKenna

#12. I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

Kirstie Alley

#13. Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Ricardo Reis

#14. I need to kind of get a job that's going to take me to, like, Hawaii or Rio or something, right? Maybe I need to make better decisions with that.

Richard Madden

#15. A song ain't why people kill cops.

Snoop Dogg

#16. I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#17. Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn.

Manuel Dos Reis Machado

#18. I placidly wait for what I don't know-
My future and the future of everything.
In the end there will only be silence except
Where the waves of the sea bathe nothing.

Fernando Pessoa

#19. You don't need to be technically great, because if you have a strong philosophy people will be moved by your pictures regardless.

Mario Sorrenti

#20. Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we're given.

Alvaro De Campos

#21. Computer science is fascinating. As you study computer science, you will find that you develop your mind. It is literally like doing Buddhist exercises all day long.

Frederick Lenz