Superficially Cultured Quotes & Sayings

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. — Stephen King

Page holds Musk up as a model he wishes others would emulate - a figure that should be replicated during a time in which the businessmen and politicians have fixated on short-term, inconsequential goals. "I don't think we're doing a good job as a society deciding what things are really important to do," Page said. "I think like we're just not educating people in this kind of general way. You should have a pretty broad engineering and scientific background. You should have some leadership training and a bit of MBA training or knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. I don't think most people are doing that, and it's a big problem. Engineers are usually trained in a very fixed area. When you're able to think about all of these disciplines together, you kind of think differently and can dream of much crazier things and how they might work. I think that's really an important thing for the world. That's how we make progress. — Ashlee Vance

25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who's crazy? — Andrew Ford

A place we've never looked before?" Alby asked. "What do you think we've been doing for two years — James Dashner

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse. — John Barton

I'm not trying to do something different, I'm trying to do the same thing but in a different way — Vivienne Westwood

The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Never trust anybody with only one book. — Billy Connolly

Man has never been the same since God died. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews. — Huston Smith

True understanding is possible only when we are fully conscious of our thought, not as an operative observer on this thought, but completely and without the intervention of a choice. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid and closed, restricting an open creative response to the world. — John Briggs

You really struggle to be a successful empire if you are also the world's biggest debtor. — Niall Ferguson

You 50 year old one-breasted bag of meat. Just hang it up and be grateful some of your friends are still living. — Jim Norton