Stanleys Famous Pit Quotes & Sayings

Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation? — Stephanie Mills

As the philosopher Gilles Deleuze put it, no painter ever stands before a completely blank canvas, no author ever sits before a blank page. In fact, the surface confronting the modern artist is full of inherited images that must first be cleared from the imagination before one can begin to create one's own. — Marie Luise Knott

I'm much pickier about what I put in my body. I always read labels now, whereas before I didn't even think to. — Nicky Hilton

...actual happiness only happens by accident — Chuck Palahniuk

I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny. — Dane Cook

Obviously I was mistaken. — Anna Quindlen

I've occasionally wished I had Caller ID. Even telemarketers, I hate to hang up on them. I try to explain I'm not interested, but they have all these canned responses so I end up having to hang up on them anyway. — John Shelton Reed

The Republicans didn't want the government to run your life, because Jesus should. That was really part of their thing: less government, more Jesus. Now it's like, how about more government and Jesus? — Trey Parker

We need to change our way of seeing the world and relating to it, not because our current way is intrinsically bad or "evil," but because we have become too powerful to continue to live as we have been living. Whether we like it or not, collectively we have become the most powerful factor in determining not only the future of human society, but also the direction of the entire planet with all its life-forms. — Ilchi Lee

Was it worth giving up anything in order to survive, no matter how precious it was? What if you gave up so much of yourself that there was nothing left of who you truly were. — Galen Beckett

Pride destroys quicker than ignorance. — Matshona Dhliwayo

How can the brain of an organism distinguish what has happened before from what has happened after? — Marco Bonafede

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation. — Pearl S. Buck