Lemia Jenkins Quotes & Sayings

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. — Charles Bukowski

My parents were early adopters, and I've been online since a rather young age. You should regard anything from 2001 or earlier as having been written by a different person who also happens to be named 'Eliezer Yudkowsky.' I do not share his opinions. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

You have to hit it," she told herself. "This could be life or death." She positioned her rifle and made herself comfortable on the rock. Chief had disappeared. A hawk screed high overhead. She — Lauraine Snelling

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out. — Oprah Winfrey

And I'm made up of everyone I've ever met who's changed the way I think. So who is "me"? — Terry Pratchett

The story of each stone leads back to a mountain. — W.S. Merwin

It's thought that about 96% of us have visual imagery, and there's a very tiny minority in the population, some of whom are normal, some of whom have brain lesions, who cannot produce visual imagery. — Siri Hustvedt

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that. — Roger Penrose

[My mother] was the strength of our family, and I didn't realize that until I got a little bit older. — Hope Solo

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions. — Steve Jobs

Thanks to Karen Connelly who read earlier versions of this manuscript and to Ronald Hatch my editor and publisher. — Nancy Holmes