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“But this year I have started out trying to live all my waking moments in conscious listening to the inner voice, asking without ceasing, 'What, Father, do you desire said? What, Father, do you desire done this minute?'”
Source : Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.8, SPCK
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“The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too is similar to other monsters (werewolves and vampires) and also similar to the sub-genre of infection/plague films. In the case of zombies, however, this may carry a greater sense of dread and revulsion: vampires and werewolves can be seen as desirable, potent, intelligent, virile creatures whom one might like -- in some way at least -- to become; a mindless ghoul condemned to wander aimlessly across an empty, ruined earth seems much less attractive.”
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“The egotist is next door to a fanatic.”
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“Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?”
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“My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to listen to a message that the rest of the world, sobered by wars without end, can also understand: that war itself is the enemy of the human race.”
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“I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.”
Source : "Adam 'MCA' Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47" by Michael Pearson, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.
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“Death is very, very terminal.”
Source : "National Business Review", (p. 10), May 1, 1987.
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“It was like the Colosseum in Rome and we were the Christians.”