Manickefte Quotes & Sayings

There are two generic and invariable features that characterize utopias. One is the content: the authors of utopias paint what they consider to be ideal societies; translating this into the language of mathematics, we might say that utopias bear a + sign. The other feature, organically growing out of the content, is to be found in the form: a utopia is always static; it is always descriptive and has no, of almost no, plot dynamics. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don't know and have compassion for them at the same time? — Wendell Berry

Do not allow your heart to whirl in the pleasures of senses. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Preparing to go to school was like getting ready for extended deep sea diving. — Jean Shepherd

Applied to an opponent, it is abuse, applied to someone you agree with, it is praise. — George Orwell

A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. ... And at the end of your life, your whole existence has that same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day." "I guess it's one way to look at things," Grant said. "No," Malcolm said. "It's the only way to look at things. At least, the only way that is true to reality. You see, the fractal idea of sameness carries within it an aspect of recursion, a kind of doubling back on itself, which means that events are unpredictable. That they can change suddenly, and without warning. — Michael Crichton

[On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees. — Penelope Gilliatt

This is an effort to have government coerce, force speech and behavior. And it's being pushed and advocated by the gay community. This is their ultimate goal. It's to not allow for diversity of opinion on this issue, because they don't want to be celebrated, they want to force everyone to not only agree with them but also have to finance their agenda. — Michele Bachmann

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price. — Ruth Handler

How quickly the mighty fall. — Sara Raasch

When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring. — Christopher McQuarrie

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about. — Julia Cameron

Suffering is a form of knowledge. It tells us what is wrong with our world. — David Smail

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life. — Anthony Hopkins