Eagenda Quotes & Sayings

I often write two books simultaneously. Usually one of them starts out as a fun experiment designed to give me a daily break from the real book I'm writing. And then that becomes a real book too. — Lauren Oliver

The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, dysfunctional, malfunctional behaviour. Time to call a tech! And who are the techs? The shamans are the techs. — Terence McKenna

I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy. — Gary Sinise

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up. — Charles Caleb Colton

When the President was asked about global warming at a public appearance yesterday, he responded by talking about America's addiction to oil. You make the connection. — Gwen Ifill

I wish that one of my children will be like the Australian guy from the Discovery Channel show. The crocodile hunter. — Shakira

Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. — Margrethe II Of Denmark

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes. — Jacques Barzun

The world's gone mad: joining it is the only solution. — Brandon Sanderson

No man becomes bad all at once. — Juvenal

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat. — Charles Dickens

I was told i was conceited today ... but being conceited would imply that i see my self as being absolutely perfect ... but come on lets be real ... EVERYONE KNOWS IM PERFECT. — Arik Maldonales

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is. — Bernadine Dohrn

I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself. — Vidya Balan

Separating fact and fiction in Inca history is impossible, because virtually all the sources available are Spanish accounts of stories that had already been vetted by the Inca emperors to highlight their own heroic roles. Imagine a history of modern Iraq written by Dick Cheney and based on authorized biographies of Sadam Hussein published in Arabic, and you'll get some idea of what historians face. — Mark Adams