Alperstein And Diener Quotes & Sayings

When you wake up and your heart is going like the clappers or your back feels strained, or you develop some other hang-up, you should let your mind go to the pain and the pain itself will regurgitate the memory which originally caused you to suppress it in your body. In this way the pain goes to the right channel instead of being repressed again, as it is if you take a pill or a bath, saying 'Well, I'll get over it'. Most people channel their pain into God or masturbation or some dream of making it. — John Lennon

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non. — Louis MacNeice

Some people think of glasses as sexy. Those people haven't seen my glasses. Coke bottles would be a more apt description. — Alessandra Torre

Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake. — Simon Heffer

I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine ... Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years. — Bill Ford

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress. — Henry David Thoreau

It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful. — Melissa De La Cruz

I guess I was sort of like a person who has seen a really great movie or read a really great book and then ran around trying to get his friends to read it. You're bursting to let everyone know that they should take some time to enrich their lives. Why I think their lives will be enriched if they listen to me, I don't know. — Gary Reilly

The nakedness of the indignant world may be cloathed from the trimmings of the vain. — Oliver Goldsmith

It's much more interesting for me to think that taking a chunk of experience and mushing it up together with other things that are inventible, remembered from some other time or stolen from other people's stories ... and see if I can make it into something that works, an object, a little machine that runs. — Helen Garner

When you reach the mountaintop look up
and think of how high you must leap to reach the stars. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path. — Michael Ritchie

The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording. — Tom Odell

I wake, the lump of last night
hiking a trail through my throat.

[from "Those Who Love Raptors"] — Alina Stefanescu

When it comes to childhood, therefore, it was reasonable to suggest that a prolonged period before independence was required once humans began to perform difficult tasks, like hunting or making pottery and baskets. Children could spend their time practicing these skills, which would better prepare them for success as adults in a hunter-gatherer society. In effect, this idea would mean that children are schooling themselves, and were doing so long before formal education was invented. — Marlene Zuk