Wienies Falling Quotes

#1. Creative ideas make people uncomfortable. It turns out that, at least subconsciously, we can have a hard time recognizing ideas as both new and useful at the same time. This cognitive dissonance between creativity and practicality may actually create a subtle bias against creative ideas.

David Burkus

#2. Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.

Morgan Fairchild

#3. I've always liked clothes, since I was a kid.

Martin Freeman

#4. You Won't Be Thanked For Kicking Down The Doors of Perception And Revealing Infinity To Others.

Dean Cavanagh

#5. Now, along with the guns I'd retrieved from my personal storage unit, I felt totally prepared to write a scholarly book on the Middle East.--Titus Ray, Chapter 9

Luana Ehrlich

#6. Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Stewart Brand

#7. Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.

Sakyong Mipham

#8. I never think of nothing. The closest I come to a blank mind is when I am counting, fucking, or drinking. The rest of the time, my thoughts are like a hamster on a wheel, running endlessly but getting nowhere.

Megan Hart

#9. There was a clown in the stormdrain.

Stephen King

#10. Love, as Mercer had heretofore understood it, involved huge gravitational fields of duty and disapproval bearing down on the parties involved, turning even small-talk into a ragged struggle for breath.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#11. I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise.

George Carlin

#12. There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

Red Skelton