Appleyard Quotes & Sayings

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained. — Bryan Appleyard

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin! — Charles Spurgeon

That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of the stranger cultural ironies of our time. If you've bought one thing on the net, the newest and most prodigiously high-tech communications system imaginable, then it is almost certain to be a book, the oldest and simplest. — Bryan Appleyard

How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test? — Prince Philip

Hope is patient endurance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The right to kill another person is not a right that I would agree with and support. — Tom Tancredo

Of course, the other thing about evolution is that anything can be said because very little can be disproved. Experimental evidence is minimal. — Bryan Appleyard

The way my team are doing, we could get Wilt Chamberlain in a trade and find out that he's really two midgets Scotch-taped together. — Gene Shue

Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you! — Michael Bassey Johnson

Really want to fuck." "I need it." I whisper the only three words I have at the moment. — C.D. Reiss

If a large number of people who are convinced alien abductions are real are hypnotising even larger numbers of others who suspect they might be, then it is likely there will be many alien abduction narratives flying around, as, indeed, there are. Of course, this is not proof they are not true, but it does provide a persuasive context for a simple psychosocial explanation. Hypnotism is a technique that triggers a mass storytelling project in which all the stories are linked. — Bryan Appleyard

Science has taken away our religion. — Bryan Appleyard

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves. — Bryan Appleyard

My subconscious eyes me warily over her tortoiseshell half-moon specs. — E.L. James

The cyborg is now the ideal to which all our most advanced technology is tending. — Bryan Appleyard

You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday. — Jennifer Love Hewitt

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God. — Bryan Appleyard

We don't choose our earthly father, but we do get to choose our Heavenly Father ... Choose Christ today; live in forever tomorrows!EL — Evinda Lepins

It is ... idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as Judaism contradicts Islam-they are absolutely and irresolvably conflicting views. Unless, that is, science is obliged to change its fundamental nature. — Bryan Appleyard

Every dew drop reflects the glints of morning sun light like a pearl to kindle our heart. — Debasish Mridha

Nobody, 20 years ago, forecast the Internet. — Bryan Appleyard

Charlie Appleyard can be anybody; but Ive used him sometimes in chat pieces, and these are all chat pieces about the history of Charlie Appleyard. — Derek Bailey

In AI, Spielberg is bleaching the dirt out of the human mind and leaving behind only the vacant gaze of machine 'love'. Coca Cola ads do much the same thing - and they don't take two hours. — Bryan Appleyard

Information is the new atom or electron, the fundamental building block of the universe ... We now see the world as entirely made of information: it's bits all the way down. — Bryan Appleyard

God was on the move; God is on the move; and God will always be on the move. Those who walk with God and listen to God are also on the move. Reading the Bible so we can live it out today means being on the move - always. Anyone who stops and wants to turn a particular moment into a monument, as the disciples did when Jesus was transfigured before them, will soon be wondering where God has gone. — Scot McKnight

The line between fiction and fact is at times factual and at times fictional — Pushkar Ganesh Vaidya

Mrs. Appleyard, in contrast, was thin and sallow and when her husband was out of the apartment Ursula could hear her singing mournfully to herself in a language that she couldn't place. Something Eastern European by the sound of it. How useful Mr. Carver's Esperanto would be, she thought. (Only if everyone spoke it, of course.) And especially these days with so many refugees flooding into London. — Kate Atkinson