Ludi Quotes & Sayings

My number one commitment is you, Luce. — Nicole Williams

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement. — Germaine Greer

Love is metaphysical gravity. — R. Buckminster Fuller

The schoolmaster is termed, classically, Ludi Magister, because he deprives boys of their play. — Walter Scott

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. — Amy Lowell

When you get older you have to be careful about always saying, "Things aren't as good as they used to be." But it's hard not to. — Andy Rooney

I should have shouted and wave my hands in case the driver looked back, but mostly in life I don't protest things. I go along, or at least I make people believe I'm going along. Sometimes it's better if people think you're dumb or don't care. — Sara Zarr

patients with aphasia and left-hemisphere lesions, says they have lost 'abstract' and 'propositional' thought - and compares them with dogs (or, rather, he compares dogs to patients with aphasia). — Oliver Sacks

He could not believe that ordinary people in the Culture really wanted the war, no matter how they had voted. They had their communist Utopia. They were soft and pampered and indulged, and the Contact section's evangelical materialism provided their conscience-salving good works. What more could they want? The war had to be the Mind's idea; it was part of their clinical drive to clean up the galaxy, make it run on nice, efficient lines, without waste, injustice or suffering. The fools in the Culture couldn't see that one day the Minds would start thinking how wasteful and inefficient the humans in the Culture themselves were. — Iain Banks

A lot of people believe women can't do tech-y stuff. Becoming nerdy doesn't have to mean the short-haired guy, but can be the woman with very long, beautiful hair. — Weili Dai

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God ... ' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick. — Raine Maida

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it. — Ashly Lorenzana