Skyhooks Quotes

#1. Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to what Dennett terms "skyhooks." Do you believe in skyhooks? I don't.

Garrett Hardin

#2. We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#3. New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#4. I think I made you up inside my head.

Sylvia Plath

#5. A parent asked me today, "How do you get your children to pray in church?" My response? "Pray at home."

Mark Hart

#6. If you're not a nice person, don't call.

Mitch Leigh

#7. Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Noel Gallagher

#8. Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.

Ori Gersht

#9. How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history; --Harvey Levenstein

Michael Pollan

#10. You have an interesting set of morals," he observed. "Breaking out of jail is okay. But steal a car, and you sound totally outraged.

Richelle Mead

#11. There is some pleasure even in pain. A sweet ecstasy.

Vikas Swarup

#12. Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

Mignon McLaughlin

#13. To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?

Christopher Hitchens