Unplugs Quotes & Sayings

I have an eclectic pallet of music that I listen to. It depends on my mood. — Tika Sumpter

Through understanding, people will be able to see their similarities before differences. — Suzy Kassem

Dialogue unplugs you from your own programming as you become more real; debate turns up the voltage and entrenches you more deeply. — Oli Anderson

It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters. — Johnny Hunt

Recently a guy was having trouble with his computer. So he unplugs it, takes it out in the alley, pulls out a gun, and shoots it eight times. Coincidentally, that's how Hillary got rid of her emails. — David Letterman

What happens to me when I'm provoked is that I get tongue-tied and my mind goes blank. Then I spend all night tossing and turning trying to figure out what I should have said — Nora Ephron

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people. — Rich Lowry

Self-consciousness, however, does hinder the experience of the present. It is the one instrument that unplugs all the rest. So long as I lose myself in a tree, say, I can scent its leafy breath or estimate its board feet of lumber, I can draw its fruits or boil tea on its branches, and the tree stays tree. But the second I become aware of myself at any of these activities
looking over my own shoulder, as it were
the tree vanishes, uprooted from the spot and flung out of sight as if it had never grown. And time, which had flowed down into the tree bearing new revelations like floating leaves at ever moment, ceases. It dams, stills, stagnates. (Harper Perennial Edition 82) — Annie Dillard