Diffuses Def Quotes & Sayings

You can't *discover* that the brain is a digital computer. You can only *interpret* the brain as a digital computer. — John Searle

Hayseeds we might be, but we meant to be informed hayseeds. — Richard Peck

To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my small range, and every color in the tones of my voice, with every look into the eyes of my audience, to thank Him. Thank you, God, for letting me be born, for giving me eyes to see the daffodils lean in the wind, all my brothers, all my sisters, for giving me ears to hear crying, legs to come running, hands to smooth damp hair, a voice to laugh with and to sing with ... to sing to you and the daffodils ... — Joan Baez

I've got a folder full of rejection slips that I keep. Know why? Because those same editors are now calling my agent hoping I'll write a book or novella for them. Things change. A rejection slip today might mean a frantic call to your agent in six months. — MaryJanice Davidson

No one gets to their heaven without a fight. — Neil Peart

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer
and that is the way he has acted through most of history.
Atlast Shrugged — Ayn Rand

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work. — Jean-Paul Sartre

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. — Ray Bradbury

And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion ... You must not lay a stumbling-block in their way, nor blow up the fire of their lust ... You must walk among sinful persons as you would do with a candle among straw or gunpowder; or else you may see the flame which you did not foresee, when it is too late to quench it. — Richard Baxter

We are Lions of Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, then why should we fear the world. We have to become Brave, Bold and Ekantik. — N.a.

As a soprano who sings 'Lucia di Lammermoor,' I have the high notes and the trills. No problems there. But going into the low registers is lots of work. — Anna Netrebko

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around. — Henry Mintzberg

But he saw a rare determination in Haley's eyes. I can trust Haley's judgement, he told himself, even as he remembered how Haley had eaten that cheddar with the mold growing on it two weeks before.

Cheese and people are not the same. — Kit Alloway

There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this. — Bill O'Reilly