Networked Energy Quotes & Sayings

There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more. — Conan O'Brien

I'm committed to the idea that one of the few things human beings have to offer is the richness of unconscious and conscious emotional responses to being alive ... The kind of esteem that's given to brightness/smartness obliterates average people or slow learners from participating fully in human life, particularly technical and intellectual life. But you cannot exclude any human being from emotional participation. — Ntozake Shange

[...]one who will not learn to handle the Bible for himself is not an evangelical Christian. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener. — Sufjan Stevens

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it. — Monica Seles

Curious the small and lesser fates that join to lead a man to this. The thousand brawls and stoven jaws, the clubbings and the broken bottles and the little knives that come from nowhere. For him perhaps it all was done in silence, or how would it sound, the shot that fired the bullet that lay already in his brain? These small enigmas of time and space and death. — Cormac McCarthy

I'm addicted to acting. — Steven R. McQueen

A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

ORN!" Variel shouted.
"Yeah yeah, kill us all. I got it," the dwarf grumbled. — Sabrina Zbasnik

The evening lay out against the sky
Like a patient, etherised on a table — T. S. Eliot

I wear glasses and suits, so I guess I am an indie artist. — Stevie Jackson

There's a slew of actors that I'd love to work with. I'd love to work with Gary Oldman. He seems like not only a solid dude and a good man, but a pretty inspired actor. — John Pyper-Ferguson

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide. — Fay Weldon

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer. — Peter Bichsel