Uncomplimentary Remark Quotes

#1. Zen is the "spirit of the valley," not the mountaintop.

Robert M. Pirsig

#2. Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see how your blue is my turquoise and my orange is your gold. Suddenly binary stars, we have startling gravity. Let's compare scintillation - let's share starlight.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#3. Her magnificence is deeper than skin.

Delano Johnson

#4. Lots of people take the option of not activating their own life, of really letting it happen.

Emily Haines

#5. My ability to help my clients was limited by our narrow focus. This was partly my fault for defining myself as a specialist, but I eventually came to see that this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture.

Peter Morville

#6. In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Paul Gauguin

#7. To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. The risk of love is loss and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love

Hilary Stanton Zunin

#9. I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!

George W. Crane

#10. The only valid political system is one that can handle an imbecile in power without suffering from it

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. Well, I'm still breathing.

Leon Spinks

#12. They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

Elvis Presley

#13. I have no reason to influence people. I just want to have it all for myself. I just want someone to pat me on the back. (laugh) It's crazy. It seems just completely ridiculous. I don't know why. I mean, three years ago, I wouldn't be able to influence my dog to walk.

Robert Pattinson