Unnutritious Quotes

#1. In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering.

John Updike

#2. No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

Francis Bacon

#3. Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Arthur Golden

#4. Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Blaise Pascal

#5. I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil.

Jim Norton

#6. Our passion is what we have been designed to do so as not to get bored between being born and death.

Ben Tolosa

#7. Love is so powerful that it can enter through a closed door and steal all of the contents of a precious heart within a moment.

Debasish Mridha

#8. The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

John Bright

#9. To understand God's love is to mirror it in the midst of a world full of hatred

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

Paul Bloom

#11. Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell's 1984 gets harder to believe. But the danger of a solipsistic society will grow, of a disconnected society of mirror-watchers and navel-gazers.

Tad Williams