Dahomey National Wildlife Quotes & Sayings

Man cuts out for himself a manageable world: he throws himself into action uncritically, unthinkingly. He accepts the cultural programming that turns his nose where he is supposed to look; he doesn't bite the world off in one piece as a giant would, but in small manageable pieces, as a beaver does. He uses all kinds of techniques, which we call the "character defenses": he learns not to expose himself, not to stand out; he learns to embed himself in other-power, both of concrete persons and of things and cultural commands; the result is that he comes to exist in the imagined infallibility of the world around him. He doesn't have to have fears when his feet are solidly mired and his life mapped out in a ready-made maze. All he has to do is to plunge ahead in a compulsive style of drivenness in the "ways of the world. — Ernest Becker

'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu. — M. Night Shyamalan

I know of only three people who really understand money. A professor at another university. One of my students. And a rather junior clerk at the Bank of England. — John Maynard Keynes

Blood in and blood out," he says, kissing my neck in between his words. "Your fuckin' choice. But know this: it is forever now my blood that runs through your veins. And I will drown you in it before I let you escape me again. — Nicole Reed

Nature has neither love nor hate, and with indifference smiles upon the light at heart and to the heavy brings a deeper sorrow. — W. Somerset Maugham

The patient needs an experience, not an explanation. — Frieda Fromm-Reichmann

When I felt that fame, people were nosing me out, well I moved on. I used traveling names. Wigs, if necessary. — Joni Mitchell

study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test. — David Rock

Two-thirds of earth's surface is ocean, and all we can see with the naked eye is the surface. — Haruki Murakami

Why do I have to feed the kids? They just ate twelve hours ago! — Bill Cosby

I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens. — JWoww

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity. — Ray Lyman Wilbur

But vows seemed ridiculous -- it was hard enough to keep appointments. — Carrie Fisher