Banausically Quotes & Sayings

The ownership of land is an odd thing when you come to think of it. How deep, after all, can it go? If a person owns a piece of land, does he own it all the way down, in ever narrowing dimensions, till it meets all other pieces at the center of the earth? Or does ownership consist only of a thin crust under which the friendly worms have never heard of trespassing? — Natalie Babbitt

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door. — Frank Herbert

Courage changes things for the better ... [With courage you can] stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped. — Earl Nightingale

If you ever need anything please don't hesitate to ask someone else first. — Kurt Cobain

People, although having their own cross to carry, can minister to others through their own pain. — Martin Sheen

Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre. — George R R Martin

Everyone is interesting. Everyone has something unexpected to offer and the job of acting is to pull it out of each other. — Meryl Streep

This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural? — Anne Rice

However smart and determined you are, your life is always going to consist of light and darkness, joy and sadness, good or bad, up and down, yang and yin. — Gary Hayden

This same formula by which Buddhists so anti-rationalistically and anti-banausically describe the "relation" between soul and body also applies to the relation between lover and lover, parent and child, member and community. — Kenny Smith

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man. — Shannon Celebi