4210 Quotes & Sayings

BAAL ONE, PLIEADES CLUSTER 4210
The King of the Pleiades was well prepared for the last war. This, however, was not it." -Renegades of Ophelia's World — Dante D'Anthony

Eventually, we come to love certain novels because we have expended so much imaginative labor on them. This is why we hang on to those novels, whose pages are creased and dog-eared. — Orhan Pamuk

Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his own approach accordingly. One of the reasons he has so fascinated biographer Robert Caro over the years is Johnson's consummate skill in acquiring and using influence. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

In every artistic activity a new world is created, the cosmos, a world enlightened and free. — Nikolai Berdyaev

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. — Stephen King

I am generally cast as the dependable, affable, loving, friend-wife-girlfriend. — Rashida Jones

On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo. — William Howard Taft

The arithmetical machine produces effects that approach nearer to thought than all the actions of animals. But it does nothing that would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals. — Blaise Pascal

Why is playing football in Europe considered the pinnacle of our game, yet in other spheres of life, that same phrase - 'being in Europe' - is dismissed with suspicion? — Gordon Brown

When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer. — Regina Brett

She noted with pleasure that he'd already dispensed with a salutation, — Jonathan Franzen

This was the sickness of the age, the revolutionary madness of the epoch. In thought everyone was different from his words and outward show. No one had a clear conscience. Each with good reason could feel himself guilty, a secret criminal, an unexposed deceiver. — Boris Pasternak

The questions are the danger.
Leave them alone and they sleep.
Ask them, awake them, and more than you
know will begin to rise. — Jonathan Carroll

I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us. — Douglas Rushkoff