Hammaker East Quotes & Sayings

The danger is not that the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but that, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. — Simone Weil

As for the reaction of his colleagues - all those hoicked eyebrows - Wesley discovered he relished the prospect. Which led to an interesting insight into human nature, or at least the human nature of the academic: one liked to be perceived by one's students as Old School, but by one's peers as New School. I — Stephen King

Before researchers become researches they should become philosophers. — Masanobu Fukuoka

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself. — Justin Theroux

The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell of the terrible desert life, the stillness, harshness, and death. I lay against the cold sand, tiny grains dancing fast and furious across my skin. I saw insects and scorpions, the line of a snake. Mohammed said the dunes moved millimeters a day. They inched across the desert floor toward the ocean. I smiled. The geographers were blind. — C. Lynn Murphy

If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins. — Patton Oswalt

For me, "Zoo" has always been a fable. It has nothing to do with realism. It's a fable about what man is doing to the world, and the animals have retribution. But in the real world, this would not happen. But in the world of 1984, this kind of thing can happen in a story. — James Patterson

I loved them, according to the hallowed expression, which amounts to saying that I never loved any of them. — Albert Camus

Affected simplicity is an elegant imposture. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I am currently reading, "The Broker" by John Grisham. it is alittle slow to start so I will have to let you know if it gets better — John Grisham

The decision to give an indicative date for a return is a mistake. It degrades the process. It degrades human life. — David Trimble

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it. — Eckhart Tolle

[Talking about ancient Greece](...) the great institutions (...) were created by older males who then trained younger males. They all had a strong homoerotic element. (...) This thereby increased the "rightness" of masculinity, never mind that half the world was feminine. That other half was also interested in philosophy, the arts, the law, religion, and athletics, but they had this other task -bringing children to term and nurturing them through the early years of their lives. And doing it again and again. Not that this gave status to women. On the contrary, the man's seed made the child. A woman was simply the receptacle provided by nature to carry the child until it was ready to come out. (...) — Tina Packer

Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand. — William Golding