Tockner Steven Quotes

#1. For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

Samuel Alexander

#2. Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

Marcus Samuelsson

#3. The choice you make can give you the advantage.

Me

#4. There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.

Francis Bacon

#5. She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#6. Where light leaves the affections behind, it ends in formality and or atheism; where affections outrun light they sink into the bog of superstition, doting on images and pictures or the like.

Timothy J. Keller

#7. Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively.

Voltaire

#8. The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

Edsger Dijkstra

#9. I think that the way of bringing realism into fantasy is to treat it as the commonplace.

Grant Bowler

#10. You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever.
Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

Carrie Fisher