Mazaska Quotes & Sayings

I don't do hats." "Poo," Lea said. "Arianna still hates the Europeans with a vengeance, you know. It was why she took a conquistador husband. — Anonymous

Dreams are divine.
Dreams are possibilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious effort is like forcing oneself to play football in spite of one's utmost unwillingness. One plays, but gets no joy. Conscious effort is like playing football most willingly. One gets real joy. Similarly, conscious meditation gives us inner Delight from the soul. — Sri Chinmoy

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was. — Katey Sagal

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg

That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not a crime) is what I have no doubt of. In the first place, they were educated to believe it, and they would have believed anything else in the same manner. There are also many who have been so enthusiastically enraptured by what they conceived to be the infinite love of God to man, in making a sacrifice of himself, that the vehemence of the idea has forbidden and deterred them from examining into the absurdity and profaneness of the story. — Thomas Paine

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. — Mark Twain

I wish we had a donkey. The thing would be for us all to come on donkeys, Jane, Miss Bates, and me
and my caro sposo walking by. I really must talk to him about purchasing a donkey. In a country life I conceive it to be a sort of necessary; for, let a woman have ever so many resources, it is not possible for her to be always shut up at home;
and very long walks, you know
in summer there is dust, and in winter there is dirt. — Jane Austen

We shouldn't have tried to create new symbols," he said. We should've realized we weren't supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief, that we weren't supposed to stir up curiosity about God. We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive. What is this shadow across the highway of Divine Command? It is a warning that institutions endure, that symbols endure when their meaning is lost, that there is no summa of all attainable knowledge.
"Admission" of C.E.T. Chairman Toure Bomoko, in "Appendix II: The Religion of Dune — Frank Herbert

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool. — Mitch Kapor

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had ... so he sent me to a girls school. — Daniel Tosh

Because there's no way that anyone would give up on a child in less time than it takes to microwave popcorn. — Shaun David Hutchinson

I'm a light comedienne; that's really where I live the most often. — Beth Broderick