D Smek Quotes & Sayings

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. — John Archibald Wheeler

To many of us prayer is more like talking to a chocolate pudding than participating in an amazing relationship with a living being. — Peter Enseleit

So now we can build an unselfish society by devoting to unselfishness the frenzy we once devoted to gold and to underpants. — Kurt Vonnegut

Captain Smek himself appeared on television for an official speech to humankind.
[ ... ] 'Noble Savages of Earth,' he said. 'Long time we have tried to live together in peace.' (It had been five months.) 'Long time have the Boov suffered under the hostileness and intolerableness of you people. With sad hearts I now concede that Boov and humans will never to exist as one.'
I remember being really excited at this point. Could I possibly be hearing right? Were the Boov about to leave? I was so stupid.
'And so now I generously grant you Human Preserves - gifts of land that will be for humans forever, never to be taken away again, now.'
[ ... ] So that's when we Americans were given Florida. One state for three hundred million people. There were going to be some serious lines for the bathrooms. — Adam Rex

I personally own six or seven thousand books, so I - and I certainly don't want to see them go away. — Tim O'Reilly

I don't believe in the hero that sets out to climb a mountain and achieves it with no setbacks. I he does, he obviously didn't set his goals high enough and shouldn't even have anything to be proud of. He didn't challenge himself enough. He might have learned a thing or two, but the real lessons are taught when you're balancing on the very edge, with one foot over the cliff, everyone expecting you to fall. That's when you realise your potential. Or rather, how far away from your own potential you actually are. — Charlotte Eriksson

How about this - let's not let our past determine whether God loves us or not. He does. And we'll never get it right without him. — Susan May Warren

That was like swatting June bugs off a fly. — Jerry Coleman