Accelerando Quotes & Sayings

And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls. — Lindsay Wagner

Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me. — George Steiner

Socrates said that, from above, the Earth looks like one of those twelve-patched leathern balls. — Plato

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals. — Richard Pryor

Crying relieves pressure on soul. — Toba Beta

He must be convinced subtly, and that will take time. But when I'm ready to tell the king what I know, it will shake the very foundations of Paris. — Marci Jefferson

Perhaps a germ of love was springing in their hearts so pure that it might blossom in Paradise, since it could not be matured on earth; — Nathaniel Hawthorne

These are defining moments ... while the pain maybe greater ... the joy maybe greater. — M Carithers

We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we're going to need some help. — Mario Lemieux

Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust. — Norman Lock

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted. — Hunter S. Thompson

Over the years I've come to appreciate how animals enter our lives prepared to teach and far from being burdened by an inability to speak they have many different ways to communicate. It is up to us to listen more than hear, to look into more than past. — Nick Trout

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush. — Eugene Ormandy

Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty. — Muhammad Yunus