Luksong Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to analyze myself or anything, but I think, in fact I know this to be true, that I enter the world through what I write.
I grew up believing, and continue to believe, that I am a screw-up, that growing up with my family and friends, I had nothing to offer in any conversation.
But when I started writing, suddenly there was something that I brought to the party that was at a high-enough level. — Aaron Sorkin

Of course, consumers might notice that their chickens don't taste quite right - how good could a drug-stuffed, disease-ridden, shit-contaminated animal possibly taste? - but the birds will be injected (or otherwise pumped up) with "broths" and salty solutions to give them what we have come to think of as the chicken look, smell, and taste. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm vain because I'm imperfect. — Pete Doherty

I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform. — Nadine Gordimer

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space. — William Shatner

I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back. — Mike Ditka

The company builds the prototype and presents it to VC firms in the hope of raising money. If they are successful, they need to go into production, so they quickly turn their prototype application into a production deployment by leveraging a cloud "Platform as a Service" (PaaS) [28] platform. — Anonymous

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology
the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically. — Edward Abbey

Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me. — Camille Claudel

The problem is the average person isnt tuned in to lifelong learning, or going to seminars and so forth. If the information is not on television, and its not in the movies they watch, and its not in the few books that they buy, they dont get it. — Jack Canfield

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria. — George Orwell