Usenet Newsgroups Quotes

#1. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

Jamie Zawinski

#2. We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

Chris Lowe

#3. Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.

Dalai Lama

#4. The true test of a man, the beginning of his redemption, actually starts when he can no longer rely on what he's used all his life. The real journey begins when the false self fails.

John Eldredge

#5. It was a very idyllic childhood, surrounded by utterly beautiful landscapes that I got very, very bored of when I hit my teens. But being on your own a lot and being bored is good for your imagination. It makes it stretch.

Jessica Raine

#6. The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred or elevating, and brought to a state of absolute emptiness, from which alone it may one day perceive its own true nature, or the nature of the universe.

Philip Kapleau

#7. Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary ...

Claude Debussy

#8. We worked over at that place The Plantation Inn with The Del Rios. It was really wild over there.

William Bell

#9. You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Aaron Sorkin

#10. The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back.

Wendy Wunder

#11. I had been brooding earlier that morn over my most probable future, which had seemed so dim that I would probably need night vision goggles to see my way through it.

Andrew James Pritchard

#12. It is oppression that creates sex and not the contrary. The contrary would be to say that sex creates oppression, or to say that the cause (origin) of oppression is to be found in sex itself, in a natural division of the sexes preexisting (or outside of) society.

Monique Wittig

#13. A man who hasn't left behind him a string of broken women has hardly been alive.

Hanif Kureishi

#14. Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.

Lucy Corin