Synthesised Quotes

#1. Nothing exists that cannot be synthesised.

David Mitchell

#2. Islam united all heresies persecuted in Byzantine Empire and synthesised them well into a conseffion that later became a symbol of Arab self-affirmation.

Lev Gumilev

#3. They had an old-fashioned sincerity ... that touched Archy in this time when everything good in life was either synthesised in transgenic cyborg vats or shade-grown in small batches by a Buddhist collective of blind ex-Carmelite Wiccans.

Michael Chabon

#4. I don't think we will use the 80s glossy sound again.

Ann Wilson

#5. Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

Emil Cioran

#6. I shall expose and reopen all the wounds which have already healed.

Seneca.

#7. I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. In life you have three options with any situation that is a challenge. Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it.

Phil McGraw

#9. The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.

Michael Oren

#10. If success is my drug then I've been on a chronic overdose all my life.

Behdad Sami

#11. When you realize that prosperity is your divine
heritage, you should persist in claiming it.

Catherine Ponder

#12. Police are killing black men. Mona Scott-Young is killing black women.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#13. I was wise, if you like, because I was prepared for death at any moment, but not because I had taken care of everything that was given to me to do, rather because I had done none of it and could not even hope ever to do any of it.

Franz Kafka

#14. Not at all. Cooking is cool. I'll make you one shaped like the moon."
"Why the moon?"
"Because you remind me of the moon," he said, and looked into his bowl. Sarah blushed.

Daniela Sacerdoti

#15. I sit up talking till daybreak with the young people and we have almost Athenian evenings, Athenian, I mean, only in their intellectual subtlety and refinement.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. I'm 77. The only reason I'm ever shy about it is that people tend to think of you in terms of what they think that age is. I certainly don't feel any different than I did when I was 35, and my energy seems to be more than it was then.

Robert Osborne

#17. I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.

William Shockley

#18. A golfer has to learn to enjoy the process of striving to improve. That process, not the end result, enriches life.

Bob Rotella