Imaginable Exposure Quotes & Sayings

All great ideas are dangerous. — Oscar Wilde

I felt tired, but I pitched the ball back at her. You want me to talk about myself, right? Let me tell you what 'self' means to me. The self, myself, the self as I see it, is composed mainly of selected memories from my history. I am not what I am doing now. I am what I have done, and the edited version of my past seems more real to me than what I am at this moment. I don't know who or what I really am. The present is fleeting and intangible. No one in China wants to talk about his past, because nobody wants to paint his face black. Our past is not a flattering picture, and no one wants to look at it for long. Yet what we were in fixed and final. It is the basis for predictions of what we will be in the future. To tell you truth, I identify with what no longer exists more than what actually is. We have lied about what we actually are, and that, unfortunately, will be your book. So would you still like me to talk about myself? — Anchee Min

It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son. — G.K. Chesterton

There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time. — Charles Horton Cooley

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis. — Paul A. Offit

There are many highly successful businesses in the United States. There are also many highly paid executives. The policy is not to intermingle the two. — Norman Ralph Augustine

I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more. — Barbara Walters

Sometimes I get so scared."
"Fear is a form of alertness. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason. — Stephen Batchelor

I'm not afraid to die. I'm just unwilling. — B.B. Reid

If something doesn't work, you have to admit it. Always try to find what's going right and what's going wrong with your music. If you can, pool your resources and record yourself; do that frequently. — Steve Forbert

It was the sort of anger that comes to a slow boil inside the hearts of good men who want justice, and finding it out oftheir grasp, decide vengeance is the next best thing. — Patrick Rothfuss

If you want to lead people, you have to let them come up close. — John C. Maxwell

Life Is All About Range — Jane Pastore Coleman

Higher projected corporate and personal income tax receipts and lower public debt charges. — Ralph Goodale