Segles Quotes & Sayings

Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness. — Caitlyn Jenner

When I sit down to the feast of life ... I'm so busy planning on how to pick up the check, and wondering what the other people think of me for paying it, and wondering if I have enough money in my pocket to pay the bill, that I don't get around to eating. — Frederik Pohl

Finally, our new brain needs a purpose. A purpose is expressed as a series of goals. In the case of our biological brains, our goals are established by the pleasure and fear centers that we have inherited from the old brain. These primitive drives were initially set by biological evolution to foster the survival of species, but the neocortex has enabled us to sublimate them. Watson's goal was to respond to Jeopardy! queries. Another simply stated goal could be to pass the Turing test. To do so, a digital brain would need a human narrative of its own fictional story so that it can pretend to be a biological human. It would also have to dumb itself down considerably, for any system that displayed the knowledge of, say, Watson would be quickly unmasked as nonbiological. — Ray Kurzweil

So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of. — Moby

Why were kings cross? Maybe their trains were late! Some say warrior Queen Boudica was buried under platform 8. — Terry Deary

Things are embarrassing, best to avoid them. But since your death I prefer a naturalist style of conversation. Let's strip it down to what matters. Let's have emotions and beliefs on show without the modest covering of small talk. — Rosamund Lupton

You love young ones and babes, I know this. The young will always befriend and admire you ... all the young ones of the earth belong to you in friendship. Be good to them.
- Breeze, to Sunflash the Mace — Brian Jacques

Functional prices are those that encourage the largest volume of production and the largest volume of sales. Functional wages are those that tend to bring about the highest volume of employment and the largest real payrolls. — Henry Hazlitt

We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever; to capture moments; to capture Time itself. — Melissa Thayer

You know, even though I'm in fashion, I don't, like, do fashion. Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff. I just want to do whatever makes me happy ... Like being totally conscious. Laughing is, like, my favorite thing to do. Being with friends, having fun ... being a bit daft. — Agyness Deyn

She liked it? 'I love it
the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot. — Pico Iyer

Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles and the importance of male domination. — Bell Hooks

The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable. — OMI