Yacklounge Quotes & Sayings

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world. — Walter Savage Landor

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate. — James Herbert

Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing ... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius. — Vladimir Nabokov

Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns. — Scott Adams

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion. — John Dickinson

For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn. — Tom Six

The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence. — Jean De La Bruyere

A non-analogue image has an extremely compressed life. It starts as this and, in increasingly short time spans, becomes that. — Roni Horn

My husband is exceedingly busy. For some time the talk of his going had been slack, but just now again there seems to be a move to get him sent to the front! — Sarojini Naidu

I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass ... — Glenn Frey

if I take much more, you will begin to change. And — L.J.Smith

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen. — Friedrich Nietzsche