Ergo Proxy Quotes & Sayings

Some folks ask me what the transition was like from NASCAR reporter to political reporter. It's easy. In one, you try to explain to your readers the significance of grown-ups getting paid exorbitant amounts of money to go around in circles indefinitely, always turning left. In the other, you get to interview racecar drivers. — Mary Katharine Ham

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example. — Big Sean

Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection. — Oprah Winfrey

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it. — Graham Greene

There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature. — Stephen Stills

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub. — Jack Kerouac

No action in the present is an action planned with a view of its effect on the future. When the future, bearing its own events, arrives, its ancestry is then traced in a trancelike retrospect, at the end of which, their mouths and eyes wide with their astonishment, the people in a small place reveal themselves to be like children being shown the secrets of a magic trick. — Jamaica Kincaid

Suicide is a terrible idea, but if you're going to end it, do so at a Pinkberry near you. — Dov Davidoff

If there was any loose money lying around, the people in government would find a way to spend it. The worst sin in the bureaucracy was to give money back because it meant the bureaucracy's budget could be reduced the following year. If at the end of the fiscal year they hadn't spent all the money in their budget, there would be a rush to buy new office furniture, take a trip at the taxpayers' expense, or spend the money on something else, just to assure their budget wouldn't be smaller in the future. The idea of returning money to taxpayers once it had been collected from them had never come up before. — Ronald Reagan

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. — John Henrik Clarke

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all. — Frank Dobson

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour. — Isabel Allende