Vollhardt Organska Quotes & Sayings

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality. — Michael Crichton

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived. — Arthur Symons

I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent. — William Regal

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads. — Fred Wilson

It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun. — Katey Sagal

As scientists linked smoking to cancer, the tobacco industry was under particularly pointed attack, which might have heightened Powell's alarmism. As a director at Philip Morris from 1964 until he joined the Supreme Court, Powell was an unabashed defender of tobacco, signing off on a series of annual reports lashing out at critics. The company's 1967 annual report, for instance, declared, "We deplore the lack of objectivity in so important a controversy ... Unfortunately the positive benefits of smoking which are so widely acknowledged are largely ignored by many reports linking cigarettes and health, and little attention is paid to the scientific reports which are favorable to smoking." Powell took umbrage at the refusal by the Federal Communications Commission to grant the tobacco companies "equal time" to respond to their critics on television and argued that the companies' First Amendment rights were being infringed. — Jane Mayer

Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body ... — Jose Saramago

Stretch your limits once a while, lest you lose your elasticity — Anonymous

Yes, I drank some of the ancient blood and it changed me. If I'm right ... If the vellum is right, the world is dead. Everyone! But I was brought back to life by the blood. — Ted Dekker

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime. — Molly Ringle

God's way is always the best way. Stay open and let Him do it His way. — Jamie Larbi

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame. — Julie Taymor

The adversary would keep us busily engaged in a multitude of trivial things in an effort to keep us distracted from the few vital things that make all the difference. — Ardeth Greene Kapp

The most remarkable thing in Binder's article may be her reference to a Women's Studies professor at the University of Michigan who, in Binder's words, worries that Fat Studies "may lead to a social proselytizing rather than serious study." In short, identity studies are becoming so far removed from any hint of academic or intellectual legitimacy that even teachers of a more established and only moderately asinine disciplines are reacting to the far more extreme asininity of newer ones. — Bruce Bawer