Pseudonymes Quotes & Sayings

Before Alar, there was EDB, a potent human carcinogen allowed in the grain supply and other food for more than a decade after it was known to be dangerous. There was heptachlor, linked to leukemia, and aldicarb, which poisoned thousands of California watermelons, yet is still allowed in potatoes and bananas at levels exposing up to 80,000 children a day to what EPA itself says are unacceptable high risks. Trust the government? Why should we? — Al Meyerhoff

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being
forgive me
rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. — J.K. Rowling

People loved to think they were getting a deal. Four times out of five they would look right past what they didn't want to see. — Donna Tartt

The Web makes people hypocritical, it encourages to take pseudonymes — Jean-Louis Murat

You know who I think is very sexy? Nora Jones. — Stephanie Sigman

Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is just the most deserving people who cannot help loving those that destroy them. — Hermann Hesse

In 1983 Colonel Burns wrote a poem in which he envisioned how his fledgling communications network might one day influence the world.

Imagine the emergence of a new meta-culture.
Imagine all kinds of people everywhere
getting committed to human excellence,
getting committed to closing the gap
between the human condition
and the human potential...
And imagine all of us hooked up
with a common high tech communications system.
That's a vision that brings tears to the eyes.
Human excellence is an ideal
that we can embed
into every formal human structure
on our planet.
And that's really why we're going to do this.
And that's also why
The Meta Network is a creation
we can love.

Notwithstanding Colonel Burns's failure to foresee that people would use the Internet mostly to access porn and look themselves up on Google, his prescience was admirable. — Jon Ronson

I think of dieting, then I eat pizza. — Lara Stone

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect. — Mike Pence

Through my grandmother's eyes, I can see more clearly the way things used to be, the way things ought to be, and most important of all, the way things really are. — Ed Cunningham

There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one. — Thomas Wolfe

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. — Abraham Lincoln

The dreamy days and sticky nights of summer were already calling, as if anything could happen. — C.J. Carlyon

Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity. — Guity Novin

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. — Karl Barth