Layer Cake Dragan Quotes & Sayings

We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real. — Austin Grossman

Every book you read may not save your life but some of them will. — Adam C. Stanley

I think it's great training for any comedian to start on cows. Because with cows, you expect them to be bored and just stare at you blankly. And that's exactly what you'll get at a comedy club. If you can toughen up with a cow audience, then you'll never be worried with a human audience. — Kristen Schaal

Iam not scared of death because I don't
want to live this useless life. — Raffid

A sociocultural environment is not some cunningly contrived thing only exists in social psychology labs. Don't look now, but you're in one right this moment. — Cordelia Fine

You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged. — Edwin Catmull

The evidence which we have of the great facts of the Bible history belongs to this class, that is, it is moral evidence; sufficient to satisfy any rational mind, by carrying it to the highest degree of moral certainty. If such evidence well justify the taking away of human life or liberty, in the one case, surely it ought to be deemed sufficient to determine our faith in the other. — Simon Greenleaf

Living life is more enjoyable than managing and organizing stuff! — Joshua Becker

[The] dinner party is a true proclamation of the abundance of being -- a rebuke to the thrifty little idolatries by which we lose sight of the lavish hand that made us. It is precisely because no one needs soup fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever. The unnecessary is the taproot of our being and the last key to the door of delight. Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls, the formal dinner...the true convivium -- the long Session that brings us nearly home. — Robert Farrar Capon

While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab civilian population was moving out. - I.F. Stone reporting from Israel during 1948 War of Independence — Sol Stern

Pearl gathered the violets, and anemones, and columbines, and some twigs of the freshest green, which the old trees held down before her eyes. With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The fact that the Virgin logo was on the side of SpaceShipOne on October 4th, 2004 was fantastic. — Peter Diamandis