Agonizing Blast Quotes & Sayings

Many of us are more capable than some of us ... but none of us is as capable as all of us! — Tom Wilson

Man cuts out for himself a manageable world: he throws himself into action uncritically, unthinkingly. He accepts the cultural programming that turns his nose where he is supposed to look; he doesn't bite the world off in one piece as a giant would, but in small manageable pieces, as a beaver does. He uses all kinds of techniques, which we call the "character defenses": he learns not to expose himself, not to stand out; he learns to embed himself in other-power, both of concrete persons and of things and cultural commands; the result is that he comes to exist in the imagined infallibility of the world around him. He doesn't have to have fears when his feet are solidly mired and his life mapped out in a ready-made maze. All he has to do is to plunge ahead in a compulsive style of drivenness in the "ways of the world. — Ernest Becker

Writing music is just something that I was born to do. — Joan Armatrading

and drove out, his beautiful horse hitched behind. Adelina called, "Remember to take the roadway!" He raised his hand — Julie Harris

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires. — Liezi

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function. — Maynard James Keenan

You will be safest in the middle. — Ovid

Her hands shot up. "See that's exactly what I'm saying. You're seeing what you want, and what you see you explain away and excuse things like you're fixing me. I'm not perfect, Ephraim and I really wish you would see that."
"You drool."
"What?" That caught her off guard.
"When you're asleep you drool. I've woken up more than a few times with a little puddle forming on my chest." After a thought he added. "And you snore. Not a delicate snore either mind you."
"I do not!" Her face colored with indignation.
He sighed heavily as if the knowledge pained him. "Oh, but you do. I've even heard Jill talk about it. Did you know that's the main reason she was happy about her room. Actually, she and Joshua thanked your Grandmother for putting you at the other end of the house, something about finally getting a decent night's sleep. They compared your snore to a chainsaw. I can see why they'd say that. — R.L. Mathewson

I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it. — Laura Hillenbrand

That's my clever girl. — Teresa Medeiros

I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think. — Hanya Yanagihara

I've always tried to make sure that what I do really connects with the broader agenda of what my husband is trying to do. — Michelle Obama

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false ... — Rainer Maria Rilke