Multicolumn Journal Quotes & Sayings

The calm was absolute, a dead, flat calm, the stillness of a dead sea and of a dead atmosphere. — Joseph Conrad

Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead. — Robert Staughton Lynd

Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Power is not good or evil. It is what it is in the hands of the wielder. — Karen Marie Moning

man is the only animal that is clever enough to build the empire state building and stupid enough to jump off. — Rock Hudson

If we take memetics seriously then the 'me' that could do the choosing is itself a memetic construct: a fluid and ever-changing group of memes installed in a complicated meme machine. — Susan Blackmore

I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal. — Konrad Zuse

Then to give the kids a historical perspective, Chacko told them about the earth woman. He made them imagine that the earth - 4600 million years old - was a 46 year old woman- as old as Aleyamma teaacher, who gave them Malayalam lessons. It had taken the whole of earth woman's life for the earth to become what it was. For the oceans to part. For the mountains to rise. The earth woman was 11 yrs old when the first single celled organisms appeared. The first animals, creatures like worms and jellyfish, appeared only when she was forty. She was over forty five - just 8 months ago - when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The whole of human civilization as we know it, began only 2 hrs ago in the earth woman's life ... — Arundhati Roy

Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great singer, had his own television show and acted in movies. — Peter Gallagher

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority. — Simon Blackburn

The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before, — Carl Sagan

The easiest way for Americans to make sense of Chinese history is to compare everything to Jewish history. There's an analogue for everything. Torah: Analects. Curly sideburns: long ponytails. Mantou: bagels. — Eddie Huang

As soon as I get time, I want to start to do some fight training. I tried a little boxing once with my personal trainer back in L.A. - it's such a good workout, and it's a good skill to have, especially in my industry, since sometimes you have to do stunts and fight scenes. — Katia Winter