Boxful Of Nightmares Quotes & Sayings

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane. — Duane Hanson

Love is the flower you've got to let grow. — John Lennon

There's nothing left except to try. — Madeleine L'Engle

The goal of Scientology is making the individual capable of living a better life in his own estimation and with his fellows and the playing of a better game. — L. Ron Hubbard

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type. — Andy Hertzfeld

The problem is this. The spread of markets outpaces the ability of societies and their political systems to adjust to them, let alone to guide the course they take — Kofi Annan

Horses are the ruination of everyone, your father has a craze for them but then we all do crazy things. — Edna O'Brien

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea. — Kazuo Ishiguro

A stony road, hard on the feet. I would beg for us to sit down but you discouraged it, knowing that sitting was fatal, because of the willpower required to get up again. — Edna O'Brien

The more a sufferer concentrates on his symptoms, the deeper those symptoms are etched into his neural circuits. In the worst cases, the mind essentially trains itself to be sick. Many addictions, too, are reinforced by the strengthening of plastic pathways to the brain. Even very small doses of addictive drugs can dramatically alter the flow of neurotransmitters in a person's synapses, resulting in long-lasting alterations in brain circuitry and function. In some cases, the buildup of certain kinds of neurotransmitters, such as dopamine, a pleasure-producing cousin to adrenaline, seems to actually trigger the turning on or off particular genes, bringing even stronger cravings for the drug. The vital path turns deadly. — Nicholas Carr

Where's Vanessa? — Julie Ann Walker

My real achievement is my daughter and my three beautiful grandchildren. — Marilyn Horne

If I own a business, I work for myself. And if I have no revenue, I work for free. That's not slavery. That'll be the case when I employ 1,000,000,000 clones of myself. I won't pay them, but they are me, so it's not slavery. — Jarod Kintz

If the work of the average man required half the mental agility and readiness of resource of the work of the average prostitute, the average man would be constantly on the verge of starvation. — H.L. Mencken