Erbij Zijn Quotes & Sayings

Don't you see, Doctor?" said Lasher. "The machines are to practically everbody what the white men were to the Indians. People are finding that, because of the way the machines are changing the world, more and more of their old values don't apply any more. People have no choice but to become second-rate machines themselves, or wards of the machines. — Kurt Vonnegut

And he smote the Balrog upon the mountainside. — J.R.R. Tolkien

To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so. — Thomas Creech

You mustn't force images on things.
Only gods were what you should expect perfection from.
You mustn't demand an ideal from anyone.
That is weakness. It is an evil that must be hated. It is negligence that must be punished. It spoils not only yourself, but those around you.
You are allowed to be disappointed with only yourself. You should hurt only yourself. Hate yourself for not following your ideal.
The only one you must not forgive is yourself. — Wataru Watari

And in their hands, the daggers. — George R R Martin

And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time. — Trip Hawkins

After all, my young Dodger, what exactly are you? A stalwart young man, plucky and brave and apparently without fear? Or, possibly, I suggest, a street urchin with a surfeit of animal cunning and the luck of Beelzebub himself. — Terry Pratchett

As a boy, it occurred to me, all people over 40 had seemed to me just worn-out old wrecks, so old that there was hardly any difference between them. A man of 45 had seemed to me older than this old dodderer of 65 seemed now. I was 45 myself. It frightened me. — George Orwell

Again and opened the other. This is my financing. — Ken Follett

Milk in a mother's breast-that's cool. Milk in a mouth-that's cool too. But milk in my trumpet? Not so cool. I have to play that thing. — Wynton Marsalis

I have never played a game in my life. — Kevin Spacey

If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?' ... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.' — Alice Dreger

As cool as I want my kids to be, they're just like any other kid. They don't love eggplant unless it is covered in cheese. — Debi Mazar

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time. — Thelonious Monk

Perhaps they don't realize where they were, so they went on living. — Yasunari Kawabata