Wolfsberg Questionnaire Quotes

#1. people's stupidity probably explains much of what people do and don't do, as I have conceded all along in this book.

Richard B. McKenzie

#2. By now it was clear that Howl was in a mood to produce green slime any second. Sophie hurriedly put her sewing away. "I'll make some hot buttered toast," she said. "Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy??" Howl asked. "Make toast!

Diana Wynne Jones

#3. Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.

Wendy Davis

#4. Rehearsal? What's that? Rehearsal's for fags. Rehearsal. Not much.

Brett Ratner

#5. Atticus sometimes said that one way to tell whether a witness was lying or telling the truth was to listen rather than watch.

Harper Lee

#6. Spare me the articles about how nice Shawcross is because that was a horrendous tackle. People say we don't fancy the physical side of it, but this is the result. If you see a player getting injured like that, it's not acceptable.

Arsene Wenger

#7. Our sex need not primarily define who we are, what we are capable of, or what we can be expected to enjoy or engage in.

Tara Moss

#8. What is art? ( ... ) Like a declaration of love: the consciousness of our dependence on each other. A confession. An unconscious act that none the less reflects the true meaning of life - love and sacrifice.

Andrei Tarkovsky

#9. When I was back in Cuba, who could have imagined I would be invited to the White House!

William Levy

#10. Good teams have a compelling product vision that they pursue with a missionary-like passion. Bad teams are mercenaries.

Jeff Patton

#11. Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

Black Elk

#12. The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to personal growth, and lessons in personal actualization. The bible is a spiritual masterpiece.

John Fante

#13. Any truth must be in a humanly conceptualized and understandable form if it is to be a truth for us. If it's not a truth for us, how can we make sense of its being a truth at all?

George Lakoff

#14. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

Virginia Postrel

#15. Writing was the antijob, the fuck you to all jobs, her claim on her autonomy, what kept her feral and free.

Michelle Tea