Thoroughfare Channel Quotes

#1. 61I am prepared to ... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain.

Walter Benjamin

#2. Soak in the history. Embrace the challenge. And feed off the hostility of the crowd.

Eric Thomas

#3. I'm not Lisa, my name is Julie.

Jessi Colter

#4. Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

Kenneth Clark

#5. Computers don't kill books; people do.

Douglas Rushkoff

#6. There is a growing consensus that the European systems have worked better than the American: They have been able to deliver better health care to more people at lower cost.

Joseph Stiglitz

#7. An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I've made, not the elimination of it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#8. Vice is nice, but liquor is quicker.

Dorothy Parker

#9. If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying. Walking exercises the body; praying exercises the soul; fasting cleanses both.

Francis Quarles

#10. It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.

Joseph Conrad