Takai Desu Quotes & Sayings

It's true, I don't like the real world. — Richard Foreman

Problem-insight precedes solution insight. Someone has to recognise a problem before they start to solve the problem ... — Max McKeown

There is no better way to gain perspective on one's life than by gazing upon the heavens. — Kristen Britain

In the target seats we have been going like a bomb and there is a great deal of confidence. I think there's going to be a great deal of regional variation throughout the UK. — Menzies Campbell

What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law. — Seneca The Younger

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal. — Oscar Wilde

Whenever I'm a little blue I think about cyanide, whose color so perfectly reflects my mood. It is pleasant to think that the manioc plant, which grows in Brazil, contains enormous quantities of the stuff in its thirty-pound roots, all of which, unfortunately, is washed away before the residue is used to make our daily tapioca. — Alan Bradley

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies. — Zubin Mehta

John McCain has not spoken about my Muslim faith. — Barack Obama

Of the little less than a million eligibles roaming around, 5 percent don't know their sign and don't even care. Another 5 percent are tied to their mothers by a food fixation. That leaves only 20 percent who are searching for a girl who will pick up their clothes, run their baths, burn her fingers shelling their three-minute eggs, run their errands, bear them a child every year, look like a fashion model, tend their needs when they are sick, and hold down a full-time job outside the home to make payments on their boat. — Erma Bombeck

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. — Will Durant

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world. — Roger Rosenblatt

Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter. — George Orwell

Games such as Mass Effect allow the gamer a freedom of decision that can be evilly enlivening or nobly self-congratulating, but these games become uniquely compelling when they force you to the edge of some drawn, real-life line of intellectual or moral obligation that, to your mild astonishment, you find you cannot step across even in what is, essentially, a digital dollhouse for adults. Other mediums may depict the necessary (or foolhardy) breaches of such lines, or their foolhardy (or necessary) protection, but only games actually push you to the line's edge and make you live with the fictional consequences of your choice. — Tom Bissell