Sight Blinders Movie Quotes & Sayings

When I started researching this book, I thought that the Internet was a metaphor for life; now I think life is a metaphor for the Internet. I'm not trying to be cute. Just as it is impossible to point to a single spark within the human brain that proves life, so it is impossible to disprove that the Internet is a living thing. It is massive. It never sleeps. And more and more, it's talking about us behind our backs. — Douglas Coupland

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage. — John Adams

If it's the beginning of something - like an album, I'm working on the lyrics and I take a walkman and headset. — Phil Collins

To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know. — Michael Davidow

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working. — Adrienne Rich

Making up for lost time?"
"Yes," I say.
"A lot of things were stolen from my childhood. Lots of important things. And now I have to get them back."
"In order to keep on living."
I nod.
"I have to. People need something like a place they can go back to. There's still time to make it, I think. For me, and for you. — Haruki Murakami

Isn't there something between stagnation and heading somewhere?" "Like?" "Like having a nice time. Enjoy the day and all that? — Julian Barnes

In science, as in business, there must be structures that ensure the well endowed do not use their position to block competition. — John Sulston

Police can only act on intelligence. — P. Chidambaram