Brandybuck Quotes & Sayings

Once you can understand something in a way that you can shove it into a computer, you have cracked its code, transcended any particularity it might have at a given time. It was as if we had become the gods of vision and had effectively created all possible images, for they would merely be reshufflings of the bits in the computers we had before us, completely under our control. — Jaron Lanier

Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza, and Conscription. — T.H. White

If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary, somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphilis'. — Etienne

It is very easy to convince yourself that you have done something correctly if you never pay attention to what else you might have done in the first place. (Satomi from Picking Bones From Ash) — Marie Mutsuki Mockett

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife. — Lord Acton

Knowledge will reveal its value only when we use it to gain wisdom through experience. — Debasish Mridha

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff. — Will Self

Where and what are Helm's Deep and all the rest of it?" said Merry. "I don't know anything about this country."
"Then you'd best learn something, if you wish to understand what is happening," said Gandalf. "But not just now, and not from me: I have too many pressing things to think about."
"All right, I'll tackle Strider at the camp-fire: he's less testy. But why all this secrecy? I though we'd won the battle! — J.R.R. Tolkien

I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!' — Malcolm McDowell

Bonobos don't really have that darker side. So that's where they could really help us is how could it be that a species that has a brain a third of the size of ours can do something that with all our technological prowess we can't accomplish? Which is to not kill each other. — Claudine Andre

You'll live to regret it, young fellow! Why didn't you go too? You don't belong here; you're no Baggins - you - you're a Brandybuck!'
'Did you hear that, Merry? That was an insult, if you like,' said Frodo as he shut the door on her.
'It was a compliment,' said Merry Brandybuck, 'and so, of course, not true. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I, too, find the flower beautiful in its outward appearance. But a deeper beauty lies concealed within. — Piet Mondrian

I don't want to use quotation marks anymore, I've gone back and forth with them. In Ghosts, I didn't use them, for instance, all the way back in the early eighties. — Paul Auster

I'm not really into vinyl. There's something about that raw, birth of rock and roll feel that makes me crazy. — David Lynch

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory). — Daniel Dennett

True ... I hear voices in my head keep talking to me. The good thing for now is ... I never answer them back. — Timothy Pina