Irnakk Quotes & Sayings

Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be displayed in an art museum or to a weapon moved from an anthropological to an artistic display ... The presenter of found art, whether material or verbal, has become a sort of artist. He has not made the object, but he has made it as art. — Gary Saul Morson

Ultimately, we are seeking a better understanding of what is means to be human. In this quest, progress is not made by finding the "right" answers, but by asking meaningful questions. — Terry Winograd

It's amazing to me how people throw stuff on the ground right next to a trash can. That drives me crazy. — Eric Close

There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. — Og Mandino

You think you know horror, Irnakk? Horror is looking into the eyes of the Shadowed One, knowing you are about to die ... and then being forced to live. Horror is waking each day to see every part of your body moving on its own - a shifting mass of Protodites where once was solid metal and living tissue. Horror is what is in the eyes of your partners when they look at you ... and in the cries of your enemies when your swarm engulfs them. Don't talk to me about fear, creature - I am fear!
-Zaktan — Greg Farshtey

Renounce all things, and thou shalt find all things; give up thy lust, and thou shalt find rest. — Thomas A Kempis

Everyone dies eventually. I think it's better to die clean. — Erika Johansen

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas ... cultures ... and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word 'freedom' means than I see much evidence of in America. — Douglas Adams

Our memories are card-indexes consulted and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. — Cyril Connolly

No one knows what they are anymore," he says. "If you're not in the habit of reading nineteenth-century novels, you think that the author has killed a fruit fly directly above a comma - semicolons have become nothing but a distraction. — John Irving

One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. — Stefon Harris

99 What kind of food do computers eat for breakfast? — Mark Kowaleski

Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral. I was always quick with the mouth. I would never learn. — Charles Bukowski

There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro. — John Garfield

No one wanted to hire me. No newspaper, television station, television network that I worked for ever wanted to hire me. — Scott Pelley