Captain Tilney Quotes & Sayings

In any case, I hope that it will be a good thing when we understand how our minds are built, and how they support the modes of thought that we like to call emotions. Then we'll be better able to decide what we like about them, and what we don't - and bit by bit we'll rebuild ourselves. I don't think that most people will bother with this, because they like themselves just as they are. Perhaps they are not selfish enough, or imaginative, or ambitious. Myself, I don't much like how people are now. We're too shallow, slow, and ignorant. I hope that our future will lead us to ideas that we can use to improve ourselves. — Marvin Minsky

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity. — Christopher Hitchens

Courtship is driven by hormones; marriage is sustained by humility and self-sacrifice. — Ron Brackin

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Horror, terror, fear, panic: these are the emotions which drive wedges between us, split us off from the crowd, and make us alone. It is paradoxical that feelings and emotions we associate with the "mob instinct" should do this, but crowds are lonely places to be, we're told, a fellowship with no love in it. The melodies of the horror tale are simple and repetitive, and they are melodies of disestablishment and disintegration . . . but another paradox is that the ritual outletting of these emotions seems to bring things back to a more stable and constructive state again. — Stephen King

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction. — Frederik Pohl

The way I feel now - broken and empty and depleted - this is what happens when I let the feelings come. — Margaret Stohl

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see. — Henry Selick