Buntline Author Quotes & Sayings

Civilization is revving itself into a pathologically short attention span. The trend might be coming from the acceleration of technology, the short-horizon perspective of market-driven economics, the next-election perspective of democracies, or the distractions of personal multitasking. All are on the increase. Some sort of balancing corrective to the short-sightedness is needed - some mechanism or myth that encourages the long view and the taking of long-term responsibility, where "the long term" is measured at least in centuries. — Stewart Brand

Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses. — Sergei Bubka

Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't. — Lyle Lovett

Remember when you tried to convince me to feed a poultry pie to the mallards in the park to see if you could breed a race of cannibal ducks?"
"They ate it too," Will reminisced. "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck. — Cassandra Clare

A person who takes a walk of 100 feet and a person who walks 2,000 miles have one major thing in common. They both need to take a first step before they take a second step. — Zelig Pliskin

It is always sad when two people have been thinking the same thing at the same moment and neither can find a way to say it out loud. — M. J. Hyland

Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error. — Kevin Allen

I'm a gemini, and I get so bored so easily. I mean, I have moved six times in the last eight years. — Courteney Cox

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone. — Anne Michaels

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Goal setting is the most important aspect of all improvement and personal development plans. Confidence is important, determination is vital, certain personality traits contribute to success, but they all come into focus in goal setting. — Paul J. Meyer

There comes a point where you'll find something out, where you'll see something, or where something will suddenly come together, and you'll realize that you know something that no one else in the world knows yet. Just you. No one else. You realize that all the value you have is in that one thing, and you're only going to have it for a short time until you tell someone else, but for that time you are more alive than you'll ever be. — Christopher Moore

True hope has no room for delusion. — Jerome Groopman

Each system is trying to anticipate change in the environment. — Kevin Kelly