Viscount Linley Quotes & Sayings

The worldly life means a factory of pain and pleasure. — Dada Bhagwan

How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world. — Cameron Dokey

If you challenge conventional wisdom, you will find ways to do things much better than they are currently done.
Bill James — Michael Lewis

I wanted to say things that were natural coming from me. — Rita Rudner

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them. — Gerald Brenan

I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different. — Sam Mendes

Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!' — Bill Maher

Kitsch offers instantaneous emotional gratification without intellectual effort, without the requirement of distance, wihtout sublimation. — Walter Benjamin

In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now. — Richard John Neuhaus

Know the grave doth gape for thee thrice wider than for other men. — William Shakespeare

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language — Marc Prensky

Knitting is still trying to teach me
That no matter how well you knit, looking at your work too closely isn't helpful. It's like kissing with your eyes open: nobody looks good that close up. — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

What other people do shouldn't affect you - we do things because of the kind of person we each want to be — George C. Marshall