Yokelore Quotes & Sayings

Moonlit plum tree-
wait,
spring will come. — Basho Matsuo

You're not going to tell me they built fifty-foot-high killer golems, are you?"
"Only a man would think of that.
It's our job," said Moist. "If you don't think of fifty-foot-high killer golems first, someone else will. — Terry Pratchett

Sometimes inexplicably the past becomes intermingled with the present — Felicity Snowden

I never left because a part of me will always be in that house ... — J.X. Burros

I always want to make films. I think of it as a great opportunity to comment on the world in which we live. Perhaps just because I just came off The Hurt Locker and I'm thinking of the war and I think it's a deplorable situation. It's a great medium in which to speak about that. This is a war that cannot be won, why are we sending troops over there? Well, the only medium I have, the only opportunity I have, is to use film. There will always be issues I care about. — Kathryn Bigelow

Until we discover this Spiritual Centre in ourselves, the God in us, we will be confused, miserable, unsatisfied and disturbed, an enigma to ourselves and to others. — Swami Chinmayananda

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now. — George Clooney

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven. — Ted Cruz

Learning to fail well means learning to understand your mistakes, because unless you know what went wrong, you may do the wrong things to correct it. — Megan McArdle

I'm no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently). — Jacques Derrida

If there was a single lesson I took away from Salomon Brothers, it is that rarely do all parties win. The nature of the game is zero sum. A dollar out of my customer's pocket was a dollar in ours, and vice versa. — Michael Lewis

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing. — Winston Churchill

The writer's room is a really interesting place to be. — Jason Gann

It's a popular fact that 90 percent of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong ... It is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, to turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, faced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying "Wow," a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this from happening. — Terry Pratchett