Thenew Quotes & Sayings

When cars have the sensory systems around them, GPS intelligence, they're looking at the world not only in visual spectrum, but infrared, ultraviolet and everything else that's going on and they've got reaction times in microseconds. Not a tenth of a second. They're a hundred thousand times faster. — Peter Diamandis

Women were expected to have weak opinions; but the great safeguard of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. — George Eliot

Close your eyes for a few seconds and imagine yourself playing Super Mario Brothers. — Anonymous

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it. — Thurston Moore

Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money. — Kevin Kwan

Some sense of ongoing, of "next," is always with us. But this sense of movement, of happening, Greg lacked; he seemed immured, without knowing it, in a motionless, timeless moment. And whereas for the rest of us the present is given its meaning and depth by the past (hence it becomes the "remembered present," in Gerald Edelman's term), as well as being given potential and tension by the future, for Greg it was flat and (in its meager way) complete. This living-in-the-moment, which was so manifestly pathological, had been perceived in the temple as an achievement of higher consciousness. G — Oliver Sacks

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. — Michelangelo Antonioni

She was more than willing to let him walk off his temper. And the man had one, even if he wasn't willing to admit it. — Nalini Singh

My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna. — George Harrison

What was I hoping to gain from this? ... Was I trying to confirm the ties that make it possible for me to exist here and now. Was I hoping to be woven into some new plot, to be given some new and better defined role to play? No, he thought, that's not it. What I was chasing in circles must have been the tail of darkness inside me. I just happened to catch sight of it, and followed it, and clung to it, and in the end let it fly into still deeper darkness. I'm sure I'll never see it again. — Haruki Murakami

I am saying that in Wales here we have a very clear election commitment and I hope, and I will express this view, I hope that every individual member of the Labour Party, will understand that and will strive to achieve unity so that we can deliver the yes vote in the Autumn. — Ron Davies

One of the best books I've read was George S. Clason's The Richest Man in Babylon, which offers financial advice in a collection of parables. — Sophia Amoruso