Foma Quotes & Sayings

Oh precious heart, you think you're lost, look down look down and find your feet. The next step is the path you're on — Veda Hille

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society. — Bong Joon-ho

Don't be a fool! Close this book at once! It is nothing but foma!
Foma, of course, are lies. — Kurt Vonnegut

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color. — Lynn Swann

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind. — Bruce Lee

Penelope screamed incoherently in Erik's tight embrace. Kaliope sat on her heels, rocking back and forth, silent. Her eyes were wide open, unblinking. She was silent — A.O. Peart

Thinking people, when disaster strikes, make it their priority to look for its causes, in order to prevent it happening again. — Osama Bin Laden

To desist from a continual hurt is to discover purpose — Sunday Adelaja

Live by the foma(Harmless untruths) that make you brave
and kind and healthy and happy. — Kurt Vonnegut

From snake - charmers, we are now a nation of mouse- charmers. Our youngsters are shaping the world with the click of a mouse with their feats in the IT sector. — Narendra Modi

In Mark 10:51-52, we read of a blind man named Bartimaeus who heard a crowd approach. When Bartimaeus realized who was within reach, he wouldn't be silenced. He began to call out the name of Jesus. "What do you want me to do for you?" Jesus asked him. The blind man said, "Rabbi, I want to see." Jesus stopped everything to open the eyes of this man, and his life was so changed by that encounter that he followed Christ alongside the road. Are you crying out to God today? — Suzanne Eller

And what opinion did Bokonon hold of his own cosmogony?
"Foma! Lies!" he wrote. "A pack of foma! — Kurt Vonnegut

All right, all right, you go right on thinking you an act of God created in his image, and I'll go right on thinking I'm descended from an ape. When you look in the mirror I should think you'd feel pretty discouraged; I wouldn't be happy to look at myself and think that my faces is an Imago Dei. It wouldn't make me feel I'd done very well by God. But when I look in the mirror and that I'm descended from an ape, I feel I've done remarkably well. — Madeleine L'Engle

Beware of "grandfalloons" and "foma". A "grandfalloon" is a proud and meaningless association of human beings. "Foma" are harmless truths intended to comfort simple souls. — Kurt Vonnegut

Live by the foma* that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.
*Harmless untruths — Kurt Vonnegut

I have graded my separate works from A to D. The grades I hand out to myself do not place me in literary history. I am comparing myself with myself. Thus can I give myself an A-plus for Cat's Cradle, while knowing that there was a writer named William Shakespeare. The report card is chronological, so you can plot my rise and fall on graph paper, if you like:
Player Piano B
The Sirens of Titan A
Mother Night A
Cat's Cradle A-plus
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater A
Slaughterhouse-Five A-plus
Welcome to the Monkey House B-minus
Happy Birthday, Wanda June D
Breakfast of Champions C
Wampeters, Foma & Grandfalloons C
Slapstick D
Jailbird A
Palm Sunday C — Kurt Vonnegut

My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people. — Maeve Binchy

The Crown of All Things is here concealed. Only one step is left. But this is a legacy for the strong or the wise - Foma — Sergei Lukyanenko