Romas The Colony Quotes

#1. And those who saw, it did surprise,
Such drops could fall from human eyes.

George Gordon Byron

#2. The practice of discernment is part of higher consciousness. Discernment is not just a step up from judgment. In life's curriculum, it is the opposite of judgment. Through judgment a man reveals what he needs to confront and learn. Through discernment, one reveals what he has mastered.

Glenda Green

#3. When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Youssou N'Dour

#4. As a task becomes automated, the parts of the brain involved in conscious reasoning become less active and other parts of the brain take over. You could call it the "OK plateau," the point at which you decide you're OK with how good you are at something, turn on autopilot, and stop improving.

Joshua Foer

#5. You can have the finest pen, typewriter, or computer, but without a set of eyes that truly see the world, you might as well have none of it.

Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#6. The doctor lifted the bottle. "Thank you," said Felix. "I never drink spirits."
"You will," said the doctor.

Djuna Barnes

#7. The other Houses don't know that my House still exists.

Josephine Angelini

#8. I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

Joseph Fiennes

#9. It's almost impossible to teach that sort of writing except by pointing students to a stack of clips and telling them, 'Inhale these.

Marilyn Johnson

#10. An intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

Anne Rice

#11. I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Leo Durocher

#12. When government is ... bailing out banks ... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

Mitt Romney

#13. A politician has an axe to grind
With which he aims to chop off half your mind.

Chris I. Naylor

#14. I always wanted to make big action movies as a kid, and that was my dream. In a way, 'Swingers' was the thing I suffered through the most doing because of all that dialog, so I could eventually be allowed to do a big dumb action movie, honestly.

Doug Liman

#15. My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Martin Sheen