Lesclave Vieil Quotes & Sayings

I used to think that if I had success I would have freedom. But I have less freedom now than I've ever had. And what gives me satisfaction is not the jewelry and not the cars. What gives me satisfaction is doing things for others, like children. — Criss Angel

I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them. — Keith Sweat

Now, for the first time, I began to be aware of my heart, the heart itself: and with this awareness, conscious terror came. I realized that I knew nothing whatever about the way we are put together; and I realized that what I did not know might be in the process of killing me. — James Baldwin

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. — Antonio Damasio

What is this? He has a sensation of touching glass. He doesn't know if they are talking about nothing or making code for the deepest meanings. — John Updike

He was now in the business of hoarding pleasure. — Erin Kellison

In fact, I've come to think of making stone soup as the only way an entrepreneur can succeed. — Peter H. Diamandis

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end. — Ayn Rand

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears? — Lawrence Block

The charges that I am anti-Semitic are simply erroneous, felonious, and unceremonious. In fact, when I need a doctor, I always look for one with a Jewish name. — Jesse Jackson

The concept of Just Noticeable Difference is summarized by the equation below (a.k.a. the Weber Fraction): — James Mourey

In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down the street is a walking bar code. You can tell where their clothes are from, how much they cost, which designer made which shoe, which shop you bought each item from. Everything is civilized and tagged and valued and numbered and put in it's place. Whereas in India, the wilderness still exists-the unindoctrinated wilderness of the mind, full of untold secrets and wild imaginings. — Arundhati Roy

So forget this cruel world
Where I belong
I'll just sit and wait
And sing my song.
And if one day you should see me in the crowd
Lend a hand and lift me
To your place in the cloud. — Nick Drake

I don't know why it's the girls who always seem to have to take on that kind of burden. — Courtney Summers

His job was to make sense of the world and there were times that he wished the world would meet him halfway. — Terry Pratchett