Dywaniki Quotes & Sayings

In a surveillance state it was vital to reserve the ability to turn a blind eye to certain people at certain times. — Ramez Naam

Humans have always unknowingly affected all Universe by every act and thought they articulate or even consider. — R. Buckminster Fuller

I am the product of living in dictatorships. And someone who's lived in dictatorships and not being allowed to be themselves, it cherishes the ability to be yourself and to have feelings and to speak them when asked. And I am that person. — Teresa Heinz

There is no certainty of what will or won't be in our lives. All we have is this moment. The last is gone, the next isn't here yet. — Curt Mega

Suppose everyone on our side felt that way? — Joseph Heller

For many activities, people cannot rely solely on themselves in evaluating their ability level because such judgments require inferences from probabilistic indicants of talent about which they may have limited knowledge. Self-appraisals are, therefore, partly based on the opinions of others who presumably possess evaluative competence — Albert Bandura

Theophilus Crowe wrote bad free-verse poetry and played a jimbai drum while sitting on a rock by the ocean. He could play sixteen chords on the guitar and knew five Bob Dylan songs all the way through, allowing for a dampening buzz any time he had to play a bar chord. He had tried his hand at painting, sculpture, and pottery and had even played a minor part in the Pine Cove Little Theater's revival of Arsenic and Old Lace. In all of these endeavors, he had experienced a meteoric rise to mediocrity and quit before total embarrassment and self-loathing set in. Theo was cursed with an artist's soul but no talent. He possessed the angst and the inspiration, but not the means to create. — Christopher Moore