Brinkster Quotes & Sayings

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts. — Edmund Leach

The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is no first strike in Karate. — Gichin Funakoshi

Humans have too many rights and not enough responsibilities.
-Aras — Karen Traviss

perhaps that's what we thought we were. Benevolent gods.
Now look at us. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients. — Jeff Fisher

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility. — Mary McCarthy

Well, even if the boy lives, he'll be a cripple, grotesque. Give me a good, clean death any day.' ... 'Speaking for the grotesques, I'll have to disagree. Death is so final. Whereas life, ah life is so full of possibilities. — George R R Martin

But we are pledged to set the world free. Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret. For in this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength. It would be at once his sheath and his armor, and his weapons to destroy us, his enemies, who are willing to peril even our own souls for the safety of one we love. For the good of mankind, and for the honor and glory of God. — Bram Stoker

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war. — Mike Farrell

Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company. — James Sinegal

I'm totally Italian, but I'm not a diva. If you could see the way I'm dressed in daily life, that's not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me. — Patti LuPone

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go. — Santoka Taneda

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word. — Timothy Noah

Life is a game, play it. — Mother Teresa