Lackadaisy Mordecai Quotes & Sayings

We wanted to see everything our eyes would accommodate, to think what we could, and, out of our seeing and thinking, to build some kind of structure in modeled imitation of the observed reality. We knew that what we would see and record and construct would be warped, as all knowledge patterns are warped, first, by the collective pressure and stream of our time and race, second by the thrust of our individual personalities. But knowing this, we might not fall into too many holes - we might maintain some balance between our warp and the separate thing, the external reality. — John Steinbeck

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient. — Peter Diamandis

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building. — Louis Sullivan

His whole life was sitting there in front of him. Day after day from dawn till dark until he was dead. All of it cooked down into forty pounds of paper in a satchel. — Cormac McCarthy

There's been so much corruption and so much cronyism in the taxi industry and so much regulatory capture, that if you ask for permission upfront for something that's already legal, you'll never get it. — Travis Kalanick

It can happen to anybody, getting all hung up on some twenty-year-old quiff. Like the little dog in the freight yard, and the train nips off the end of his tail and he yelps and spins around and it cuts off his head. Never lose your head over a piece of tail. — John D. MacDonald

Don't you hate waking up after the day's already started? Jake usually asks, like it's a race. As though by the time I roll out of bed I'm already lagging behind everyone else, as if I'll never be able to catch my stride. — T. Greenwood

President Obama finally has his own personal Twitter account. Even John McCain said, 'Welcome to the Internet, grandpa.' — Jimmy Fallon

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all. — Desiderius Erasmus