Understandings Of What Makes Quotes & Sayings

Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. — Warren Buffett

from the end of John Shirley's Black Glass, something like: "the Singularity guys don't understand, they aren't copying us, our brains, just the noise we make — John Shirley

For how many people do you think might yet stand on this planet before the sun grows cold? That's the responsibility we hold in our hands. — David R. Brower

I hesitated for just a moment. Some part of me wanted to see the creature, after having heard it for so many days. Was it the remnants of the scientist in me, trying to regroup, trying to apply logic when all that mattered was survival? If so, it was a very small part. I ran. — Jeff VanderMeer

I enjoyed my life when I had nothing ... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me. — Joey Ramone

I swear to God," she muttered, fighting a laugh, "if you've dusted me with blue, I'll tie your balls in a knot and hang you up by them on the nearest sharp object I see. — Nalini Singh

The catcher in the rye ... that's all I really want to be ... — J.D. Salinger

I haven't really had a major role in film for about 12 years. But I never stopped working in the theater. I do stuff back to back. — Jacki Weaver

I think we all want to find the love of our life and live our fantasies. What art student hasn't used his art to get girls? What journalists or actors haven't used their craft as well? It's a very human instinct to pursue. — Max Minghella

Liberation also means that even though I'm a woman I have masculine parts of my temperament which I can safely explore and integrate into my experience. — Marianne Williamson

I go through the same problems all young people go through. Being in this business, I accept that there are positives and negatives but having a strong family base and a belief in God enables me to weather the storms. — Aaliyah

As long as I have other ideas and projects noted, I feel confident that they'll be alright until I get to them. And my ideas and tastes may have evolved by the time I get to them so that an idea can be discarded or expanded upon in ways that I wouldn't have thought of had I started on that project right away instead of finishing what I was currently on. It's good to give those ideas time to ripen and blossom. — Nicholas Trandahl

Beliefs are conclusions reached by men who are lazy to think for themselves. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special. — Benny Goodman

It's dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane man - a man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more. — R.C. Sproul