Atlatl Spear Quotes & Sayings

Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation? — Stephanie Mills

I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace. — Aleksandar Hemon

I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't. — Anthony Kiedis

The past lives through us. We are its legacy. — Marty Rubin

Paul Verhoeven might be my favorite director, and I'm serious. — Judah Friedlander

It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people. — Robin Williams

But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up. — Kurt Loder

THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the government, including the restraints imposed on the States. The SECOND, to the particular structure of the government, and the distribution of this power among its branches. — James Madison

To successfully gain a hostage's safe release, a negotiator had to penetrate the hostage-taker's motives, state of mind, intelligence, and emotional strengths and weaknesses. The negotiator played the role of bully, conciliator, enforcer, savior, confessor, instigator, and — Chris Voss

Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time. — Iris Murdoch

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness. — Franz Liszt

Here we find further argument for Gotagga's supposition that the world is round. How else could all men stand higher than their brothers? — R. Scott Bakker

When I turned 16, I thought I was a man. I needed the money. When you don't have it, crazy thoughts go through your mind. — Snoop Dogg