Vahel Fish Quotes & Sayings

Did you ever think that if you told me where Bill's hiding his computer program, I would give you anything you asked for?
- Eric, club dead. — Charlaine Harris

There is a kind of dictatorship that can come about through a creeping paralysis of thought, readiness to accept paternalistic measures by government, and along with those measures comes a surrender of our own responsibilities and therefore a surrender of our own thought over our own lives and our own right to exercise the vote. The free system gives the right to every citizen to do something for himself. Because he has the right, the opportunity is always there. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Over and over. They be making me remember everythings. Me old songs, they just be natural. But now they be stuffing new things into me and this poor head hurts horrid. — Lois Lowry

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — William J. Clinton

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being. — J.K. Rowling

I'm hoping maybe people like working with me because I like what I do for a living and I want to have a good time. — Martha Plimpton

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas. — David Lynch

A good trick as you get older is to get a thick pair of glasses that have a dark frame. Everything else can droop and slide but that pair of dark glasses stays sharp and crisp. Look at Cary Grant. Look at Vidal Sassoon. — Tom Ford

The earth seemed unearthly. — Joseph Conrad

In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. — George Best

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I am doing. — Wernher Von Braun

Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hope and love, sister and brotherhood, that we are bound together in our desire to see the world become a place in which our children can grow free and strong. We are bound together by the task that stands before us and the road that lies ahead. We are bound and we are bound. — James Taylor

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want. — Johnny Depp

The future's here already. It's just unevenly distributed. — William Gibson