Disksys Quotes & Sayings

Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness. — Michael Bassey Johnson

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility.' — Geoffrey Canada

I name you Elf-friend; and may the stars shine upon the end of your road! — J.R.R. Tolkien

there are no fruitful speculations outside of reality. — Cheikh Anta Diop

Thy impudence has a monstrous beauty, like the hindquarters of an elephant. — James Elroy Flecker

By default I am the good parent. I've used my own personal experience. I came from a world where I was in need and starving for the good parent, so it's like I'm bringing my own persona issues into that. I am the parent that I always wanted to have; that's how I look at my role. — Bob Harper

IMAGINE YOU ARE Siri Keeton. You wake in an agony of resurrection, gasping after a record-shattering bout of sleep apnea spanning one hundred forty days. You can feel your blood, syrupy with dobutamine and leuenkephalin, forcing its way through arteries shriveled by months on standby. The body inflates in painful increments: blood vessels dilate, flesh peels apart from flesh, ribs crack in your ears with sudden unaccustomed flexion. Your joints have seized up through disuse. You're a stick man, frozen in some perverse rigor vitae. You'd scream if you had the breath. — Peter Watts

For too long we have tried to consume our
way to prosperity. Look at the cost: polluted
lands and oceans, climate change, growing
scarcity of resources from food to land to fresh
water, rampant inequality. We need to invent a
new model; a model that offers growth and social inclusion ... that is more respectful of the
planet's finite resources. Nature has been kind
to human beings, but we have not been kind to
nature. — Ban Ki-moon

All who call on God in true faith ... will certainly be heard. — Martin Luther

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. — Frank O'Hara

The real trick in life is to turn hindsight into foresight that reveals insight. — Robin Sharma