Orbiting The Giant Hairball Quotes & Sayings

Only the philosophical question is perennial, not the answers. — Paul Tillich

The weapons are held to the head of all the world, and the world behaves. No one has an advantage; no one can win. — Pamela Sargent

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes. — Thomas A. Edison

You think intercourse is a private act; it's not, it's a social act. Men are sexually predatory in life; and women are sexually manipulative. When two individuals come together and leave their gender outside the bedroom door, then they make love. — Andrea Dworkin

I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me? — Nicholas Sparks

We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results - or those heroes who focus on process rather than results. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Ever since that happened to me, I haven't been able to give myself to anyone in this world. — Haruki Murakami

If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business. — William J.H. Boetcker

I started playing guitar at the age of 8 or 9 years. Very early, and I was like already into pop music and was just trying to copy what I heard on the radio. And at a very early age I started experimenting with old tape recorders from my parents. I was 11 or 12 at that time and then when I was like 14 or 15 I had a punk band. I made all the classic rock musician's evolutions and then in the early nineties I bought my first sampler and that is how I got into electronic music, because I was able to produce it on my own. That was quite a relief. — Christian Fennesz

Law does, "because God said so!"; Grace does because it understands the reason God said so. — D.R. Silva

Art is something you choose to make ... it's a bringing together of ... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person. — China Mieville

You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that. — Elliott Smith

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look. — Alyssa Sutherland

You don't know your ass from a hole in the ground, you know that? — Barry Webster