South Park Blockbuster Quotes & Sayings

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. — Immanuel Kant

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility — Eric Hoffer

I think inherently, a little bit, I'm a bit of a pleaser, and I want people to like me and be nice, and to not ruffle feathers and just make everybody happy and stuff. It's a personality flaw. — Paolo Bacigalupi

I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher. — John Williams

The invisibility in which we live next to one another is appalling, Kukla thought. — Dubravka Ugresic

He lived in London indeed but invisibly, his existence like an erased pencil sketch — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Embedded in every technology there is a powerful idea, sometimes two or three powerful ideas. Like language itself, a technology predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments and to subordinate others. Every technology has a philosophy, which is given expression in how the technology makes people use their minds, in how it codifies the world, in which of our senses it amplifies, in which of our emotional and intellectual tendencies it disregards. — Neil Postman

A good reporter remains a skeptic all his life. — Jack Smith

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made. — Orison Swett Marden