Buckmaster 184 Quotes & Sayings

Microsoft is one of those rare companies to have truly revolutionized the world through technology, and I couldn't be more honored to have been chosen to lead the company. — Satya Nadella

In short, the oppressor and the oppressed, instead of fighting it out within the city, directed their aggression toward a common goal-an attack on a rival city. Thus the greater the tensions and the harsher the daily repressions of civilization, the more useful war became as a safety valve. Finally, war performed another function that was even more indispensable, if my hypothetical connection between anxiety, human sacrifice, and war prove defensible. War provided its own justification, by displacing neurotic anxiety with rational fear in the face of real danger. Once war broke out, there was solid reason for apprehension, terror, and compensatory displays of courage. — Lewis Mumford

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange

First: Character is king. There are probably fewer than six books every century remembered specifically for their plots. People remember characters. Same with television. Who remembers the Lone Ranger? Everybody. Who remembers any actual Lone Ranger story lines? Nobody. — Lee Child

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl. — Daniel Snyder

The Holy Bible. Promoting ignorance and superstition for nearly 2000 years. — Robert M. Price

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for. — Nathan East

It was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing. This we did. — Jack Kerouac

The harmonious man, it needs to be said, hardly exists at all; out of many tens, even hundreds of thousands perhaps one or two at most are encountered, and even then in rather feeble versions. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain ... The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence. — Terence McKenna

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes. — Honore De Balzac

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed. — Joe Satriani

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow. — Walter Kirn