Zenlessness Quotes

#1. Mademoiselle St. Pierre always presided at M. Emanuel's lessons, and I was told that the polish of her manner, her seeming attention, her tact and grace, impressed that gentleman very favourably.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. Ockham's disposable razors

James K. Morrow

#3. Miguel tries to look jokey-penitent, but misses and looks like a man in white jeans who underestimates a spot of flatulence.

David Mitchell

#4. I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

J. C. Watts

#5. A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have more capable and loyal advisers.

William Ralph Inge

#6. If I believed in polls, I wouldn't get up in the morning.

Hillary Clinton

#7. Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

Alison Owen

#8. My life itself couldn't very conceivably be less Zenful than it is, and what little I've been able to apprehend - I pick that verb with care - of the Zen experience has been a by-result of following my own rather natural path of extreme Zenlessness.

J.D. Salinger

#9. Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#10. I basically love anything that comes in a hot dog bun ... except hot dogs.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#11. Most people I know don't even realize I'm an award-winning author, but I have gotten many opportunities to travel to places I'd never have visited otherwise.

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#12. I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.

Audrey Niffenegger

#13. Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Wayne W. Dyer

#14. I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain as to the cause of one's queer behavior and strange sufferings, impute to one a mysteriousness often subtly convenient.

John Barth