Totalling Quotes & Sayings

If you don't stick to your plan enough, and you're too seduced by whimsical notions and new ideas, you can kind of lose your train of thought and end up with something that doesn't have a solid through-line. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Imagine you have intellect but no insight, agendas but no awareness. Your circuitry hums with strategies for survival and persistence, flexible, intelligent, even technological - but no other circuitry monitors it. You can think of anything, yet are conscious of nothing. You can't imagine such a being, can you? The term being doesn't even seem to apply, in some fundamental way you can't quite put your finger on. — Peter Watts

I guess my favorite Web site would be theonion. I used to read that paper all the time in New York, and it still cracks me up. It's actually my homepage on my computer. — Reid Scott

We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others. — Alex Pacheco

This is what we do, my mother's life said. We find ourselves in the sacrifices we make. — Cammie McGovern

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. — Antoni Gaudi

Being Captain No-Fun really is no fun — Jay Crownover

Yep, there's special eyes that only Jesus can give. When people have special eyes, they can see past a person's face and show other people love. — J.E.B. Spredemann

Chaim Potok wrote two novels that I think are indispensable to understanding the Hasidic and Orthodox American Jewish communities following the Holocaust: The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev. — Nancy Pearl

Beowulf stands out as a poem which makes extensive use of this kind of figurative language. There are over one thousand compounds in the poem, totalling one-third of all the words in the text. Many of these compounds are kennings. The word 'to ken' is still used in many Scottish and Northern English dialects, meaning 'to know'. Such language is a way of knowing and of expressing meanings in striking and memorable ways; it has continuities with the kinds of poetic compounding found in nearly all later poetry but especially in the Modernist texts of Gerard Manley Hopkins and James Joyce. — Ronald Carter

No," I told him. "You tell me what I want. That's what I want. — Laurelin Paige

He had not seen her since that afternoon. And with the miracle that is male compartmentalization he had barely thought of her either. — Zadie Smith

He sent Zuckerberg a letter proposing Viacom would pay $1.5 billion to buy the two-year-old company. — David Kirkpatrick

The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons. — J.R.D. Tata

Living well and ripping your enemy's still-beating heart out with your bare hands is the best revenge. — Michael O'Donoghue