Rachel Thorn Quotes & Sayings

Simply disabling specific critical thinking skills is all that is necessary for the god virus [to take control of a person]. — Darrel Ray

You can't compare a Super Bowl crowd, which tends to be more polite and a little more neutral to that. The Super Bowl only has 7,000 to 8,000 fans for each team. — Lamar Hunt

There has been an unwise and spectacularly unsuccessful attempt to grow a goatee, hence a fluffy little tuft of something or other, just underneath the centre of his lower lip, that any mother would want to rub off with a bit of spit. — Nick Hornby

Politics is an extension of war by other means. Arguments are soldiers. Once you know which side you're on, you must support all arguments of that side, and attack all arguments that appear to favor the enemy side; otherwise it's like stabbing your soldiers in the back - providing aid and comfort to the enemy. Politics is the Mind-Killer. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

No foreign architect of stature, such as I. M. Pei, resides in Japan. Foreign architects come to Japan on short-term contracts, erect a skyscraper or a museum, and then leave. But subtle and sophisticated approaches to services and design - the core elements of modern building technology - cannot be transmitted in this way. Japan is left with the empty shells of architectural ideas, the hardware without the software. — Alex Kerr

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few,
And soon the grassy coverlet of God
Spreads equal green above their ashes pale. — Bayard Taylor

An Army is a team. It lives sleeps eats and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit — George S. Patton Jr.

Disney Resort and World and Compound, a place where your dreams really do come true, if you dream about having people wearing enormous cartoon-animal heads come around to your restaurant table and act whimsical and refuse to go away until you laugh with delight. — Dave Barry

You are nuttier than a fruitcake, that's what you are! — L.T. Suzuki

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer. — Rachel Ward

The ancestor of every action is a thought — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog. — Haruki Murakami

What isn't there is as important as what is, Phil always said. — Janet Fitch

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval. — Criss Jami

I wanna open a Jamaican/Irish/Spanish small plate breakfast restaurant and call it Tapas the Morning to Ja. — Harris Wittels