John Anderson Contiki Quotes & Sayings

A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy. — Zicheng Hong

I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues in terms of conditions and not in terms of someone's inborn political philosophy. — Carl Albert

Like most men, I can't say I am thrilled my hair's falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it. — Robert Webb

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities. — Gregory Allen Howard

Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end. — Terence McKenna

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks. — Cameron Russell

Be confident, cheerful and contented. The mind can produce any degree of contentment and peace. To generate these, no other agency or help is required. — Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha

I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity. — Harrison Ford

Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky.' He looked at me and continued. 'The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous.' His piercing blue eyes looked into mine.' Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life. — Bryce Courtenay

There's nothing like New Orleans. When it comes back, it will be a tremendous highlight for America. — Peter Max

The best fiction is often how we interpret our own lives and what we see as our common due. It is created usually as a means of avoiding reality which, if seriously considered, might negate our ability to strive for what might seem impossible. — Anne Edwards

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It's an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen. — Jason E. Hodges

I think diversity has to happen on a storytelling level, not just on a casting level. — Kelvin Yu

A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our own version of knowledge, we have been unreceptive to the wisdom of the natural world. To tune in again, to have the "spontaneous environmental rapport" that characterized our ancestors, will take doing something that is perfectly delightful: reimmersing ourselves in the natural world. — Janine Benyus