Yakmatt Quotes & Sayings

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be ... including our perception. Of it — Anais Nin

Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich? — Jay Livingston

A remedy for masturbation which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering anaesthetic, as the pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed. — John Harvey Kellogg

With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order their young to slaughter each other. Analysis -endless analysis- has been offered about the two men's tactics, as if they were coaches preparing for the Super Bowl. — Colman McCarthy

The history of the universe is, in effect, a huge and ongoing quantum computation. The universe is a quantum computer. — Seth Lloyd

You're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined and glimmering in the dark but coarse and ordinary otherwise; you have to examine such minerals in the absence of light to discover their beauty, you tell yourself. — Joyce Carol Oates

Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion. — William C. Brown

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to. — E. Lockhart

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents. — Jerrold Nadler

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone. — Diane Setterfield