Charowski Quotes & Sayings

Nature did not gift us with a mighty Mekong like Thailand and Vietnam, with their vast and naturally fertile plains. Nature instead put our islands ahead of our neighbours in the path of typhoons from the Pacific. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure. — David "Doc" Searls

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965. — Robert Rauschenberg

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government. — Timothy Murphy

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Spontaneously to God should turn the soul, Like the magnetic needle to the pole; But what were that intrinsic virtue worth, Suppose some fellow, with more zeal than knowledge, Fresh from St. Andrew's College, Should nail the conscious needle to the north? — Thomas Hood

Struggle or stress is a sign that the ego has returned, as are negative reactions when we encounter obstacles — Eckhart Tolle

So whenever I hear The Beatles I always feel I've got a lot in common with everybody else. — Robyn Hitchcock