Midderlands Quotes & Sayings

When being distracted by a sideshow, one should wonder what is happening in the big tent. — Deon Potgieter

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables. — Sappho

This American system of ours', he shouted, 'call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if only we seize it with both hands, and make the most of it'. A month later in New York I was telling this story to Mr John Walter, minority owner of The Times. He asked me why I had not written the Capone interview for the paper. I explained that when I had come to put my notes together, I saw that most of what Capone had said was in essence identical with what was being said in the leading articles of The Times itself, and I doubted whether the paper would be best pleased to find itself seeing eye to eye with the most notorious gangster in Chicago. — Claud Cockburn

I am no longer scared to close my eyes and to imagine. — Vijay Bagha

I'm nobody's motivational speaker, but if I've learned anything it's this: Always try to fuck someone you think won't fuck you. Just try. Chances are decent that you're overestimating their taste or intelligence. — Shawn Vestal

America under Barack Obama has become a defensive, reactive and weaker country both at home and abroad. — Chris Christie

Douglas R. Hofstadter, an American researcher, speculates that the human mind has consciousness because it has the capability of self-reference. Since we can think about ourselves and think about ourselves thinking about ourselves, etc., we are capable of feeling that we are an "I". Contrast that with what we have learned in this chapter. This chapter tries to show that the computer's ability to perform self-reference is the cause of its limitations. Can we say that self-reference in computers brings limitations while in humans it causes consciousness? Perhaps. — Noson S. Yanofsky

To live in the past is to miss today's opportunities and tomorrow's blessings. — Quentin Crisp

There were a number of particularly delightful incidents. There is, for example, the physicist who introduced me to one of my favorite laws, which he described as Murphys law or the fourth law of thermodynamics (actually there were only three last I heard) which states: If anything can go wrong it will. — Anne Roe

In the years 1910 and 1911 I had 51 innings with 10 not outs and an average of 19. This I consider a creditable record for a poet. — Siegfried Sassoon

I'm very lucky, as I've never ever felt any pressure from any producer to lose weight, whereas a lot of actresses have. — Holliday Grainger

actually considered it. But the sound of more footsteps thundering — Melody Anne

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith. — Regina Brett