Yggdrasil 4195 Quotes

#1. We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Jimmy Carl Black

#2. Jenny's absence seems to describe her better than her presence does; she is a looming vessel of her own withholding.

Emily Ruskovich

#3. I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.

Thomas Nagel

#4. It's nice to see something more pathetic than I feel right now.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. The system continually has to make this choice: it can either continue to exploit a known process and make it more productive, or it can explore a new process at the cost of being less efficient.

Kevin Kelly

#6. [It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

Edward Gibbon

#7. The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

Frederick Lenz

#8. She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch.

Nenia Campbell

#9. [The atonement's] authenticity and value in no way depend on the response of any man, but depend instead on its satisfaction of God and the demands of His righteousness.

Robert Shank

#10. We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

Thomas McGuane