Imralderas Library Quotes & Sayings

Frankly, I'll believe in horoscopes the day I can describe my personality to an astrologer and they tell me what date I was born. — Seth Shostak

The esoteric finds the Absolute within the traditions, as poets find poetry within the poems. — Frithjof Schuon

I just want to build great products. — Tim Cook

Photography invites one to give up any attempt to delineate such things as can delineate themselves. — Paul Valery

Sitting there on the deck during intermittent periods of dozing I thought that it's really hard on a soul to admit how much of life we have spent being full of shit. — Jim Harrison

I grew up in Cleveland and started doing plays in high school. And I went to the University of Illinois, and I majored in drama. And after school, I went up to Chicago, because I didn't really know anybody in New York or Los Angeles, and I knew people who were doing plays in Chicago. — Alan Ruck

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art. — David Gilmour

There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California. — Carly Fiorina

Learning requires work. This is as true of learning the Bible as it is of learning algebra. — Anonymous

Falsehood is difficult to be maintained. When the materials of a building are solid blocks of stone, very rude architecture will suffice; but a structure of rotten materials needs the most careful adjustment to make it stand at all. — Richard Whately

I recalled a sermon Burke had delivered months ago, when everything from the Jew hole was still safely abstract, wisdom I could enjoy in the unactionable pit of my mind. They will sniff at your legs, went Burke's sermon. They will wish they were you. Beware the man on his knees, the display of weakness. But the sermon had not passed through the radio coherently that day; static cloaked the transmission. Every other word was weakness, as if the broadcast were looping by mistake. We were to fear weakness not in oneself, where it should be cherished, but in others. Or not fear it, but mistrust it. We too easily believe in the trouble of others, erect a machinery of caring. Look through the story at the teller's need, was the caution. Share not your full story, went the warning. — Ben Marcus

The only way we can get rid of this desire to cling to our prejudices, is thoroughly to convince ourselves of the superiority of the truth; to leave not the slightest doubt in our own minds as to the value of looking with perfect indifference on all questions; to see that this is more advantageous than believing in that opinion which would benefit us most if true, more important than "being consistent," more to be cherished than the comfortable feeling of certainty. — Henry Hazlitt

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff — Harold Nicolson

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier. — Ken Olsen