Pyutes Quotes & Sayings

I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing. — Mary Gaitskill

At the end only two things really matter to a man, regardless of who he is; and they are the affection and understanding of his family. Anything and everything else he creates are insubstantial; they are ships given over to the mercy of the winds and tides of prejudice. but the family is an everlasting anchorage, a quiet harbor where a man's ships can be left to swing to the moorings of pride and loyalty. — Richard E. Byrd

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother. — Martin Sheen

I won't go anywhere near the new Times Square. It's seizure-inducing. — Jami Attenberg

The Luggage said nothing, but louder this time. — Terry Pratchett

If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them. — Christopher Moore

Stop trying to be different. Just do what you are good at, and work really hard. You have to work hard to be chaos. — Frederick Lenz

All my life people have called me gifted. Extraordinary. Blessed. I had all these dreams to become something. Someone. No one ever said I couldn't. No one ever said Killer. — Sophie Jordan

Surviving isn't around us, but in us. — Shannon L. Alder

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end. — Idries Shah

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret. — Sara Shepard

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters. — Anne Rice

Commenting on playoffs to determine a national champion: I'm not in favor of 15 games either. I think that's way too much football. The thing that I feel good about is that these guys hung together through 15 games and played hard every week. That's a marvelous tribute to the kids. We just hung in there today and kept playing. It's just been a special feeling all year long. — LaVell Edwards

Where'd you learn to do all these funny things?' he laughed. 'And you know I say funny but there's sumpthin so durned sensible about 'em. Here I am killin myself drivin this rig back and forth from Ohio to L.A. and I make more money than you ever had in your whole life as a hobo, but you're the one who enjoys life and not only that but you do it without workin or a whole lot of money. Now who's smart, you or me?' And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. — Jack Kerouac

System 2 and the electrical circuits in your home both have limited capacity, but they respond differently to threatened overload. A breaker trips when the demand for current is excessive, causing all devices on that circuit to lose power at once. In contrast, the response to mental overload is selective and precise: System 2 protects the most important activity, so it receives the attention it needs; "spare capacity" is allocated second by second to other tasks. In our version of the gorilla experiment, we instructed the participants to assign priority to the digit task. We know that they followed that instruction, because the timing of the visual target had no effect on the main task. If the critical letter was presented at a time of high demand, the subjects simply did not see it. When the transformation task was less demanding, detection performance was better. — Daniel Kahneman