Kesmist Quotes & Sayings

The central virtue of a liberal education is that it teaches you how to write, and writing makes you think. Whatever you do in life, the ability to write clearly, cleanly, and reasonably quickly will prove to be an invaluable skill. — Fareed Zakaria

I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles. — Richard Dawkins

If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding. — Rebecca Goldstein

I needed no physical object to remind me of his love. I already carried it in my heart, and it would be enough to get through this. — Richelle Mead

Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground. — Nabeshima Naoshige

The public is the tribunal before which all art is judged - not the critics or the academies. The public is the artist's only patron, and has certain fundamental rights. It will submit to education, and will respond to suggestion, but it will not be bullied. — Walter J. Phillips

Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was. — Andrew Dice Clay

All the great people say it was their destiny to be great. Know thyself-you have a destiny to be great. It's coded in your DNA/RNA. Meet thy greater self. Express thy higher self. Fulfill your real self. — Mark Victor Hansen

The nouvelle cuisine of anarchy. Barium nitrate in a sauce of sulfur and garnished with charcoal. That's your basic gunpowder. Bon appetit. — Chuck Palahniuk

Reading Poe was like a near-death experience, the kind that makes you feel fragile and free in its wake. I felt almost as though I'd scared myself alive. — Koren Zailckas

Before long, billions of people around the world were working and playing in the OASIS every day. Some of them met, fell in love, and got married without ever setting foot on the same continent. The lines of distinction between a person's real identity and that of their avatar began to blur. It was the dawn of new era, one where most of the human race now spent all of their free time inside a videogame. — Ernest Cline

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity. — Joanna Baillie

She has no body as others have. People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them. Her mind steps into emptiness, alone. — Virginia Woolf

Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15. — Michael Caine