Sure You Are Meme Quotes

#1. The same principle leads us to neglect a man of merit that induces us to admire a fool.
[Fr., Du meme fonds dont on neglige un homme de merite l'on sait encore admirer un sot.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#2. When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.

Nate Silver

#3. When Vern had described Meme users so estranged from everyday language that they didn't know what words they didn't know, I

Alena Graedon

#4. I don't think I could ever complete anyone. But driving someone insane sounds doable. -Internet meme

Darynda Jones

#5. Apparently, there was even a meme created already. The incredibly photogenic glowing-alien meme.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. No, the founders of our culture didn't just fall into a lifestyle of total dependence on agriculture, they had to whip themselves into it, and the whip they used was this meme: Growing all your own food is the best way to live. Nothing less could imaginably have done this amazing trick.

Daniel Quinn

#7. If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine.

Susan Blackmore

#8. Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

Charles Stross

#9. By the time he graduates, projected to be by his thirtieth birthday, Wheeler's transcript will be a meme used to scare children into studying harder.

Kurt Dinan

#10. It's an internet meme," I said, matter-of-factly. "I'd tell you to Google it, but you've only got about five minutes to live and you're going to spend every one of those fighting for your life.

Robert J. Crane

#11. curricular: they occur outside his playing remit. This is Lingard of the social media meme, the dab-dance

Andrew Kirby

#12. Irving Wallace wrote a bestselling novel, The Man, in the 1960s about a black man becoming president of the United States. We thought that such a possibility was thousands of years in the future. Some people may still have some difficulty with the idea, but that's a major cultural meme shift.

Wayne Dyer

#13. All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

Susan Blackmore

#14. Maruman does not loll.

Isobelle Carmody

#15. It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

Terence McKenna

#16. It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the universe. (Not even remotely.) - MEME

Darynda Jones

#17. You shouldn't give him a ride, Grace!" Meme snapped. "He's likely to strangle you and dump your body in the lake."
"Is this true?" I asked Callahan.
"I was thinking about it," he admitted.

Kristan Higgins

#18. Certainly almost everything we do and think is colored in some way by memes, but it is important to realize that not everything we experience is a meme. If I walk down the street and see a tree, the basic perception that's going on is not memetic.

Susan Blackmore

#19. Will 2015 ever be noted as the year Ebola was decisively downgraded from a lurid horror meme to just one of many commonly treatable diseases?

T.K. Naliaka

#20. A meme a day keeps the planes away.

Meme McDonald

#21. Signs you drink too much coffee: You don't sweat. You percolate.
Internet meme

Darynda Jones

#22. God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Richard Dawkins

#23. The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.

Theo Jansen

#24. This is one of the things I find so insufferable about the liberal backlash against critics of Islam - especially the pernicious meme "Islamophobia," by which anyone who thinks Islam merits special concern at this moment in history is branded a bigot.

Sam Harris

#25. I tried to start a gang once.
It turned into a book club.
- MEME

Darynda Jones

#26. Are you going to eat me in my sleep?"
"Friends are like potatoes. If you eat them, they die."
"Is that a no?"
"Are you a potato?

Rain Oxford

#27. Ne dites pas trop de mal de vous-meme: on vous croirait. - Don't talk too badly of yourself: they ight believe you.

Andre Maurois

#28. Our task is to create memes ... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

Terence McKenna

#29. Women usually tell that version of the truth which flatters them the most.

Valentin V.

#30. I never saw a meme; I never saw the sea.

Emily Dickinson