Electrecord Quotes & Sayings

Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. - Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works — Daniel C. Dennett

Pretty sad that we define each other by what we do to put bread on the table rather than what makes us come alive. — Anonymous

Shakespeare
whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations. — Jason Biggs

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. — Soren Kierkegaard

If you come back in here, I'm gonna hit you with so many rights, you're gonna beg for a left. — Chuck Norris

Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?"
Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams. — Henri Rousseau

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment never measures up to what we imagine. — Fernando Pessoa

A thoroughgoing paternalist who holds it cannot be dissuaded by being shown that he is making a mistake in logic. He is our opponent on grounds of principle, not simply a well-meaning but misguided friend. Basically, he believes in dictatorship, benevolent and maybe majoritarian, but dictatorship none the less. Those of us who believe in freedom must believe also in the freedom of individuals to make their own mistakes. If a man knowingly prefers to live for today, to use his resources for current enjoyment, deliberately choosing a penurious old age, by what right do we prevent him from doing so? We may argue with him, seek to persuade him that he is wrong, but are we entitled to use coercion to prevent him from doing what he chooses to do? Is there not always the possibility that he is right and that we are wrong? Humility is the distinguishing virtue of the believer in freedom; arrogance, of the paternalist. — Milton Friedman

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it always comes down to one person in the field giving specialized training to somebody else in the field. — Robert D. Kaplan

Lo shoots a withering glare his way. Your our goddamn publicist, not the king of the caste, so stop acting like you have authority to banish my brother into another room. — Krista Ritchie

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change. — Pearl S. Buck

You play with your tongue? You know, I can, too. Just when I do, it's cuter," I paused, "sexier even. Your tongue play? Ugh, just plain creepy. Anyone tell you that your real tongue is not suitable for foreplay? — Alyse M. Gardner