Nguema Mbasogo Quotes & Sayings

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work. — Kingsley Amis

What the (totalitarian) government cares about is making the quest for information just enough of the nuisance that people generally won't bother. — James M. Fallows

There is something stunningly narrow about how the Anthropic Principle is phrased. Yes, only certain laws and constants of nature are consistent with our kind of life. But essentially the same laws and constants are required to make a rock. So why not talk about a Universe designed so rocks could one day come to be, and strong and weak Lithic Principles? If stones could philosophize, I imagine Lithic Principles would be at the intellectual frontiers. — Carl Sagan

The only guarantee we are given when we are born is that we will die. — Shannon K. Butcher

Your best efforts bring about your best results.
Your greatest skills bring about your greatest results. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The will of the world is always a will to death, a will to suicide. We must not accept this suicide, and we must so act that it cannot take place. — Jacques Ellul

We theorize about what goes on in the brain, but it is mostly undiscovered country. A writer's work is to coax the stuff out and see how it plays. Surprise, as I have often said, is everything. — Ray Bradbury

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent. — Horace Smith

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am. — Lena Dunham

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation. — Rich Lowry

Being bound to one particular storyline such that one's narrative is rigid, does not imply the need to avoid formulating particular other kinds of possibilities. Rather, it involves being stuck in one self-limiting, self-reinforcing set of possibilities. — Elizabeth F. Howell

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it. — Alexander Pope

Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will. — Carmen Agra Deedy