Loceano Quotes & Sayings

Intellectual discussion, after all, is the real joy of the winter of life, when other pleasures have flown, as it were. — John Barth

We have only one rule here - to act like a gentleman at all times. — Robert E.Lee

Judging from the tendency and effect of his arguments, an atheist does not appear positively to refuse that a God may be ... His verdict on the doctrine of God is only that it is not proven. It is not that it is disproven. He is but an atheist. He is not an anti-theist. — Thomas Chalmers

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method. — Richard P. Feynman

We're not giving what we're called to give, unless that giving affects how we live - affects what we put on our plate and where we make our home and hang our hat and what kind of threads we've got to have on our back. Surplus Giving is the leftover you can afford to give; Sacrificial Giving is the love gift that changes how you live - because the love of Christ has changed you. God doesn't want your leftovers. God wants your love overtures, your first-overs, because He is your first love. — Ann Voskamp

Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God. — Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

Maybe he should have thought about all this before he knocked her up with the life-sucking monster. — Stephenie Meyer

In the verbal conflagration of a Shakespeare and a Shelley we smell the ash of words, backwash and effluvium of an impossible cosmogony. The terms encroach upon each other, as though none could attain the equivalent of the inner dilation; this is the hernia of the image, the transcendent rupture of poor words, born of everyday use and miraculously raised to the heart's altitudes. The truths of beauty are fed on exaggerations which, upon the merest analysis, turn out to be monstrous and meaningless. Poetry: demiurgical divagation of the vocabulary ... Has charlatanism ever been more effectively combined with ecstasy? Lying, the wellspring of all tears! such is the imposture of genius and the secret of art. Trifles swollen to the heavens; the improbable, generator of a universe! In every genius coexists a braggart and a god. — Emil Cioran

Her voice froze on the second word, like a feather taking off in a sudden draft. Then it cooed and hovered and soared and eddied and the silent invitation of a smile picked delicately at the corners of her lips, very slowly, like a child trying to pick up a snowflake. — Raymond Chandler

You start talking about God and a lot of people are going to become very defensive. — Ron Perlman

I never want to make a movie which is going to be CG filled, cold, and computerized. — James Bobin

What's wealth but the means of expanding one's life? There's two ways one can do it: either by producing more or by producing it faster. — Ayn Rand

It is hard for people to understand helping someone if you having nothing to gain. — Sarah Holman

People in open relationships enjoy exploring different dynamics with different people-sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Non-monogamy gives them the opportunity to create unique relationships that nourish and support each other. — Tristan Taormino