Boices Lane Quotes & Sayings

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in — Orison Swett Marden

Was that all her religious beliefs had ever been then, a set of precepts so deeply inculcated in her that they became automatic, even instinctive? Hear the word God, think He. See the misery of humankind, blame Eve. Obey your parents, be a good girl, vote Trinity Party, never sit with your legs apart. Don't question, just do as you're told. — Hillary Jordan

Psycho-galvonic experiments show clearly that every emotion or thought is always connected with some electrical current. — Alfred Korzybski

People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through. — Jonny Greenwood

The internal psychological pressure to make up a story, to explain the ruins before one's eyes, is powerful indeed. — Michael Crichton

You know how diamonds - how all crystals - grow, Laurette? By adding microscopic layers, a few thousand atoms every month, each atop the next. Millennia after millennia. That's how stories accumulate too. All the old stones accumulate stories. That little rock you're so curious about may have seen Alaric sack Rome; it may have glittered in the eyes of Pharaohs. Scythian queens might have danced all night wearing — Anonymous