Spirit Junkies Quotes

#1. THE COMPUTER IS JUST AN INSTRUMENT for doing faster what we already know how to do slower. All pretensions to computer intelligence and paradise-tomorrow promises should be toned down before the public turns away in disgust. And if that should happen, our civilization might not survive.

Gian-Carlo Rota

#2. When I was growing up, there were very few women athletes. I remember watching Olga Corbett, but Peggy Fleming and Janet Lynn were my role models. I never dreamt that I could be at that level. I remember thinking they seemed so elegant and regal and powerful and feminine.

Dorothy Hamill

#3. The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Shana Alexander

#4. Wanting to be true to yourself ... Is just an act of self-satisfaction.

Aya Kanno

#5. Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others' well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

Dalai Lama

#6. It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.

Hannah Arendt

#7. I'd designed my avatar's face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn't have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

Ernest Cline

#8. From an inimitable timepiece to an immeasurable masterpiece, there is meditation perfected

Anyaele Sam Chiyson

#9. All the money in the world won't do a thing if you get up every day and hate yourself. Follow your dream.

Miranda Liasson

#10. The color scheme of the whole sanatorium seemed to be based on liver. Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mod or damp. A mottled brown linoleum sealed off the floor.

Sylvia Plath

#11. No amount of time will weaken our allegiance to avenging those lost in the horrible attacks. America has a sharp memory, a firm resolve, and a commitment to her own.

John Doolittle

#12. Nothing Is Excited Than To See God's Glory Restored

Sunday Adelaja

#13. Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't.

Nicola Formichetti

#14. If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.

Thomas Perez

#15. I did love her, of course, but mostly because loving your mom is mandatory, not because she was someone I think I'd like very much if I met her walking down the street.

Ransom Riggs