Procrustean Mythology Quotes & Sayings

I suppose that it was inevitable that my word-base broadened. I could now for the first time pick up a book and read and now begin to understand what the book was saying. Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that opened. Let me tell you something: from then until I left that prison, in every free moment I had, if I was not reading in the library, I was reading in my bunk. You couldn't have gotten me out of my books with a wedge ... Months passed without my even thinking about being imprisoned. In fact, up to then, I never had been so truly free in my life. — Alex Haley

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. — Charles Lindbergh

If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers. — Daniel Dennett

It is critically important that Iran should not develop nuclear weapons. And that the necessary interventions need to be made by the International Atomic Energy Agency to ensure that, indeed, that does not happen, in the context of any nuclear generation of power or research or whatever, in Iran. — Thabo Mbeki

Let's play double or nothing... you beat me... fair... now let's play again, let's see was that your lucky day or not!? — Deyth Banger

Ordinary people in times of shame and doubt needed an anamchara, or a "soul friend." Soon — Richard Rohr

Watch out for music. It should come with a health warning. It can be dangerous. It can make you feel so alive, so connected to the people around you, and connected to what you really are inside. And it can make you think that the world should, and could, be a much better place. And just occasionally, it can make you very, very happy. — Peter Gabriel

As I am from Hawai'i, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers. — Nainoa Thompson

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation. — Ajahn Chah

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. — Marissa Mayer

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. — Jack Vance

Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics. — Dennis Prager

I think that the climate within the band has changed, it's now in a more functional situation. — Billy Sherwood

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. To get something better, you know? — Miranda Kenneally