Rikudoufox Quotes & Sayings

The right books are like crowbars for our imaginations. When we find ourselves stuck at some place in life, the right book can pry open our inner idea banks. You know those moments: life has become so routine you could do it in your sleep-in fact, you wish you could. You need a change, but you're not sure if it calls for a career switch, a life overhaul, or just a new hairstyle.
During these seasons, the right book challenges you to think differently, to see life in a new light, to bring resolution to a problem, or make a life-changing decision.
Books can propel you out of life's occasional ruts. Through their mind-expanding, heart swelling, pulse-quickening words and ideas, books become like WD-40 for our brains — Pat Williams

AI has by now succeeded in doing essentially everything that requires 'thinking' but has failed to do most of what people and animals do 'without thinking'-that, somehow, is much harder. — Donald Knuth

A lamb was a young animal which was legendary for sleeping well on the planet Earth. — Kurt Vonnegut

How to fail: Try too hard. — Malcolm Forbes

When somebody dies we usually need reasons for consolation, not so much to alleviate our pain as to excuse ourselves for so readily feeling consoled. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body. — Deepak Chopra

We make things happen be believing they will," he once said to me. "We dream where we're headed, and one day, as if entering that dream, we arrive there". — Scott Fotheringham

I was of the opinion that the past is past, and like all that is not now it should remain buried along the side of our memories. — Jonathan Safran Foer

To participate, then, in the pomp of the orchestra, in the full scintillation thereof, was in the highest degree thrilling. Is this not the image of the perfect republic
each instrument singing its wonted melody, endeavoring at once to express its part, and, in the same instance to conform its voice to the conversation of the whole? — M T Anderson

Men who swear undying love sometimes have the worst intentions in the world. — Alexandre Dumas

This wasn't the first time I'd woken up as a captive. It wasn't even the second. I so needed to reevaluate my life choices. — Jeaniene Frost

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. — Emil Cioran

The act of reading is so intimate that readers are unpredictable. — Charlie Huston