Namgoong Minsu Quotes & Sayings

With the use of psychedelics, it was all based around the Tibetan Book of the Dead, using them to experience enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise. — Jonah Lehrer

I don't have a temper!" I snap. And pause. "I'm simply passionate. — Emma Hart

We're becoming more of a police state, and the government is doing everything it can to protect its secrets. — Kenneth Eade

I.
Don't trace out your profile
forget your side view
all that is outer stuff.
II.
Look for your other half
who walks always next to you
and tends to be who you aren't. — Antonio Machado

If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden. The two processes complement each other, creating a complete landscape that I treasure. The green foliage of the trees casts a pleasant shade over the earth, and the wind rustles the leaves, which are sometimes dyed a brilliant gold. Meanwhile, in the garden, buds appear on the flowers, and colorful petals attract bees and butterflies, reminding us of the subtle transition from one season to the next. — Haruki Murakami

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland. — Ambrose Bierce

That illusion of young romantic love to which women look forever forward and forever back. — F Scott Fitzgerald

That vague and wandering opinion of Deity is declared by an apostle to be ignorance of God: — Augustine Of Hippo

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation. — Timothy Noah

You have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. And I don't mind if you're not scientifically literate, but just admit that to yourself, so that you'll know, and perhaps you can take a first step to try to eradicate that. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It may seem paradoxical to say that we have been expelled from the present, but it is a feeling we have all had at some moment. Some of us experienced it first as a condemnation, later transformed into consciousness and action. The search for the present is neither the pursuit of an earthly paradise nor that of a timeless eternity: it is the search for a real reality. — Octavio Paz

I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them. — Abigail Breslin

It simply comes down to this, Get Busy Living, or Get Busy Dying. — Tim Robbins