Bokononists Quotes & Sayings

The image you currently have of yourself is as high as you can go ... — Stephen Richards

Take a break from dating. This can be for as long as you need. But give yourself time to heal. I like to use the Wite-Out example. Unless you allow the Wite-Out to dry on the paper, writing over it will just cause a smudge and uncover what is still underneath. Wait until you heal before getting back out there. — Harlan Cohen

No navigator has yet traced lines of latitude and longitude on the conjugal sea. — Honore De Balzac

Only the English created a new England, settled not by subjects of the Crown resolved to live beyond the seas, but by pioneers and builders in a land of new promise. — Stephen W. Sears

My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character. — Beau Bridges

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm. — Charles Schwab

Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is. But — Kurt Vonnegut

Tax is citizenship's rent. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. — Nathan Myhrvold

I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists. — Don Miguel Ruiz

When you talk about presidents, loyalty is a great thing until it becomes a bad thing. Witness once again Watergate. — Monica Crowley

If you can raise profits by shaving costs on your main product and 90 percent of your customers wouldn't even notice, why not just do it? Because we can tell the difference. — Howard Schultz