Yabba Dabba Quotes

#1. Rather than a plausible explanation for how we got to be the way we are, the standard narrative is exposed as contemporary moralistic bias packaged to look like science and then projected upon the distant screen of prehistory, rationalizing the present while obscuring the past. Yabba dabba doo.

Cacilda Jetha

#2. Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Baruch Spinoza

#3. Opinion pages have an impact on public debate, and they sometimes reveal things the government would rather have kept quiet.

Andrew Rosenthal

#4. Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#5. I would say the difference between 'old Mark' and post-stroke Mark ... is that pre-stroke Mark was a major micromanager. I just don't have the time or inclination to micromanage as much as I used to.

Mark Kirk

#6. And what do I mean by the word 'perfection'? That I shall not try to explain but only say, 'Perfection makes me laugh.' Not cynically, I hasten to add, 'With joy.

Susan Sontag

#7. And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

John Steinbeck

#8. I'm a freak with power.

Sherman Alexie

#9. Emotions are powerful sources of energy. They are what makes us alive. They provide proof of our souls.

Emma Raveling

#10. This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no man does - but I like what is in the work, - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - what no other man can ever know.

Joseph Conrad

#12. Everything that David Chase does has a tremendous amount of specificity. He is very detail oriented.

John Magaro

#13. Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother.

John Whitbourn

#14. Sometimes she talked like a poet; she made a little joke of it, so that you wouldn't mind.

Joan D. Vinge

#15. A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger.

Bryce Courtenay