Geekdom Fund Quotes & Sayings

When the audience first sees Cooper talking into his tape recorder at the beginning of 'Twin Peaks,' I think that's the greatest introduction to a character I've seen in my career. It tells you everything about the guy right there in a few minutes as well as bringing up a whole load of questions. — Kyle MacLachlan

Exercising the right of occasional suppression and slight modification, it is truly absurd to see how plastic a limited number of observations become, in the hands of men with preconceived ideas. — Francis Galton

The agreements of human society embrace not only protection against murder, but thousands of other things, and it is certainly true that in America - not to mention other continents - the whites have excluded the blacks from some of the benefits of those agreements. It is said that the exclusion has sometimes even extended to murder - that in parts of this country a white man may kill a black one, if not with impunity, at least with a good chance of escaping the penalty which the agreement imposes. That's bad. It's deplorable, and I don't blame black men for resenting it. But you are confronted with a fact, not a theory, and how do you propose to change it? — Rex Stout

In all my songs, I take on roles and play characters. It's a unique way to explore ideas and decisions I might not think or make in real life. — Jack White

In Western Civilization - America and Britain - if you see people talking and it becomes an argument and voices are raised, you are not surprised if violence follows. Hopefully it won't, but you are not surprised. — John Gimlette

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule. — Peter Richmond

An intemperate patient makes a harsh doctor. — Publilius Syrus

Can you imagine if you had a pair of shoes that you could only walk in? That could be kind of limiting under certain circumstances. 'Everybody get outta here! There's a swarm of bees coming!' What? Oh great, I got my walking shoes on today. I guess I better stroll the hell out of here at a moderate pace. — Arj Barker

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little. — Andy Grove

Just be you. I've learned the hard way and in the end, some people are just so full of hate that no matter what you say or do, they'll always have something to say. — Megan Fox

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

One has a singularity contained within a region of space-time known as a black hole. — Stephen Hawking

Her heart pounded as he kissed her. Or was it his heart? She hadn't been able to tell the difference ever since he'd freed her from that trap. — Cornelia Funke