Gazzotti Seuls Quotes & Sayings

Television as we have it isn't an art form - it's a piece of furniture that is good for a few things. — Pauline Kael

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational. — Richard Dawkins

One reason punishment doesn't usually work is that it does not coincide with the undesirable behavior; it occurs afterward, and sometimes, as in courts of law, long afterward. The subject therefore may not connect the punishment to his or her previous deeds; animals never do, and people often fail to. If a finger fell off every time someone stole something, or if cars burst into flames when they were parked illegally, I expect stolen property and parking tickets would be nearly nonexistent. — Karen Pryor

You know, I think what people want more than anything is they just want people to do what they say they're going to do. — Jason Chaffetz

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made. — Charles Spurgeon

The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo

The Beatles insisted he let it be, let it be. Stephen ejected the tape from his eight-track and threw it on the floor of the passenger seat. Whispered words of wisdom, please. They had no idea. — Ted Dekker

World is full of people so troubled they don't even understand themselves. You could offer them a thousand dollars to explain their motivations, but they can't tell you what they don't know. — Catherine Ryan Hyde

Solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside — Karen Joy Fowler

I staggered backward-her one hand gripping my shoulder, the other still holding my wrists behind her-and she followed until my back hit the wall. — Kim Harrison

Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots. — Alex Shoumatoff