Captain Pike Quotes & Sayings

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. — Roald Dahl

After about three billion years of this sometimes zany, frequently tedious fugue of carnality and carnage, — Neal Stephenson

People have become afraid of love because in love also, death penetrates. If two lovers are sitting side by side in deep love and intimacy, not even talking ... Talking is an escape, an escape from love. When two lovers are talking that simply shows they are avoiding the intimacy. Words in-between give distance - with no words distance disappears, death appears. In silence there is death just lurking around - a beautiful phenomenon. But people are so afraid that they go on talking whether it is needed or not. They go on talking about anything, everything - but they cannot keep silent. — Rajneesh

I want to have complete control over every media so that when I make my record I put on it what I want to put on it. Not what society wants me to put on it. — Peter Tosh

You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.
I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair. — Toba Beta

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination. — Alan Watts

When people say they try to find themselves, their inner self, to understand the meaning of life I smile and I say, instead why don't you create yourself and give a new meaning to your life — Anubhav Mishra

We must, together as a nation, stop watching Fox. — Jon Stewart

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak. — Rachel Kushner

This assumes that the glory of Christ is our highest treasure, not health, wealth, family or even life. So preaching must continually show not that Jesus is the means to prosperity but that he is better than prosperity. — John Piper

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. — Stanley Baldwin

There is truth in stories," said Arthur. "There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die. — Cassandra Clare

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it. — Tom Petty

I like something about George W. Bush. A lot. After spending more than a decade having almost physiological-chemical reactions anytime I saw him, getting the heebie-jeebies whenever he spoke - after being sure from the start that he was a Gremlin on the wing of America - I really like the paintings of George W. Bush. — Jerry Saltz