Alxis Arsenal Quotes & Sayings

One epoch's "popular culture" is another's esoterica. — Alfred Appel Jr.

To succeed even once you have to try at least once. — Matshona Dhliwayo

In any case, I hope that it will be a good thing when we understand how our minds are built, and how they support the modes of thought that we like to call emotions. Then we'll be better able to decide what we like about them, and what we don't - and bit by bit we'll rebuild ourselves. I don't think that most people will bother with this, because they like themselves just as they are. Perhaps they are not selfish enough, or imaginative, or ambitious. Myself, I don't much like how people are now. We're too shallow, slow, and ignorant. I hope that our future will lead us to ideas that we can use to improve ourselves. — Marvin Minsky

The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it! — Margaret Deland

Research, in nature's laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied. — Verlyn Klinkenborg

It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff. — Shirley Horn

Human believe what they want to believe and individual could believe according to his mind that why human never has any agreement on one ideology. — Zaman Ali

There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind — Napoleon Bonaparte

I grew up in Somalia, in Saudi Arabia, in Ethiopia, and in Kenya. I came to Europe in 1992, when I was 22, and became a member of Parliament in Holland. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted around him, rotted, bloated, exploded, and fell away to let the pure Jack Kerouac, the saint, escape free at last - remembered only as a ghost. — Gerald Nicosia

So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world, they're not going to be happy with it. — Marilyn Manson

In science we see progress. In art there is no progress. In art the questions have always been the same. From the beginning of time till now, we are always asking the same questions. There are very few. We are looking for God, we are asking why we die, we are contemplating sex and the beauty of nature. The only thing that changes is that, in each period of questioning, we speak with the language of our time. — Christian Boltanski

The sensuous person is liquid, flowing, fluid. Each experience, and he becomes it. Seeing a sunset, he is the sunset. Seeing the night, dark night, beautiful silent darkness, he becomes the darkness. In the morning he becomes the light. He is all that life is. He tastes life from every nook and corner, hence he becomes rich. This is real richness. Listening to music he is music, listening to the sound of water he becomes that sound. And when the wind passes through a bamboo grove, and the cracking bamboos, and he is not far away from them: he is amidst them, one of them - he is a bamboo. — Osho

I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life. — Keith Donohue

Don't know much, but I know I love you. — Linda Ronstadt