Pseudomystical Quotes & Sayings

It's bad biology to rob nonhuman animals of their emotional lives. — Marc Bekoff

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Every negative effect needs a positive cure (solution) — Ikechukwu Joseph

You know frankly, going to war without France is like going deer hunting without an accordion. You just leave a lot of useless noisy baggage behind. — Jed Babbin

There can be nothing more frightening in a gigantic monster of many tentacles than intelligence. — A.E. Marling

You might be a redneck if you have every episode of Hee Haw on tape. — Jeff Foxworthy

I used to hate waking up every morning. Now I look forward to every day, even though we're stuck in this place. Because it means one more day with you. — Layla Hagen

Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for. — Orhan Pamuk

Litigation is notoriously time-consuming, inefficient, costly and unpredictable. — Charlie Munger

I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you. — Marilyn Monroe

Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It's read and study. And think about what you're studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask 'why?' And know the answers. — Ben Feldman

Tove had blown the doors open with his abilities, and he stood on the other side of them, looking astonishigly bad ass. — Amanda Hocking

As a man writes his fiction, his fiction is writing him. We can never change ourselves back into what we were, any more than I can change these printed words. So we have to be careful about what we write. — Ross Macdonald

Emotional intensity" doesn't convey the half of it, of course. It is the kind of coarse and disappointing translation that makes the dismembered bodies of samurai warriors spin in their graves. The word "zanshin" is larded down with a lot of other folderol that you have to be Nipponese to understand. And Hiro thinks, frankly, that most of it is pseudomystical crap, on the same level as his old high school football coach exhorting his men to play at 110 percent. The businessman makes another attack. This one is pretty straightforward: a quick shuffling approach and then a snapping cut in the direction of Hiro's ribcage. Hiro parries it. — Neal Stephenson