Whits End Salon Quotes

#1. Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh's starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven's Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine.

Daniel Bor

#2. The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.

Jessica Savitch

#3. It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

Barbra Streisand

#4. What motivates me more than money are God and my family.

Albert Pujols

#5. Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
(Interview, Sierra Magazine, May/June 2005)

Jared Diamond

#6. The Cowboy's defense has more holes in it than Ronny Milsapp and Jose Feliciano after a game of lawn darts.

Dennis Miller

#7. a new biological species, the hit-and-run businessmen, who did not stay in any line of business longer than the span of one deal, who had no payrolls to meet, no overhead to carry, no real estate to own, no equipment to build, whose

Ayn Rand

#8. It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

H.W.L. Poonja

#9. It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss.

Mark Twain

#10. God appears, and God is Light, to those poor souls who dwell in Night; but does a Human Form display to those who dwell in realms of Day.

William Blake

#11. You've never been in love," she said. "You don't understand."
"If being in love means giving up your freedom, not to mention your opportunities," Caitlin said, "Then I haven't missed anything.

Judy Blume

#12. Romans and fairies and death dogs, oh my.

Dani Harper

#13. A great start-up, a great project - a great job, for that matter - should be fun, and if you're working your butt off without deriving any enjoyment, something's probably wrong.

Eric Schmidt

#14. We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Jerry Hall

#15. I have learned to savor every minute of time with my four year old daughter not only because I know how quickly children grow up but also because I have no idea what state the world will be in when she is my age.

Grace Lee Boggs