Amanitas And Christmas Quotes & Sayings

My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic. — Evel Knievel

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity. As such, it is a direct descendant of the breakdown of the bicameral mind. — Julian Jaynes

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure. — Lofty Wiseman

There was only one hope she didn't and wouldn't allow herself to hold on to: that if, in almost thirty years, she hadn't found a man, not a single one, who was exclusively significant for her, who had become inevitable to her, someone who was strong and brought her the mystery she had been waiting for, not a single one who was really a man and not an eccentric, a weakling or one of the needy the world was full of - then the man simply didn't exist, and as long as this New Man did not exist, one could only be friendly and kind to one another, for a while. There was nothing more to make of it, and it would be best if women and men kept their distance and had nothing to do with each other until both had found their way out of the tangle and confusion, the discrepancy inherent in all relationships. — Ingeborg Bachmann

it has left a neat bomb-shaped hole in the deck, just like a panicky Warner Brothers cartoon character passing at high speed through a planar structure such as a wall or ceiling. — Neal Stephenson

It is not rational arguments but emotions that cause belief in a future life. — Bertrand Russell

Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds. — George Orwell

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form. — Jeffrey Kluger