"As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future."

-- David Johansen

#Children Quotes #Consuming Quotes

“I guess I'm still sort of feisty and a little bit of a tomboy.”

Source : "Interview: Kelly Hu's Ninja Bad Girl Joins Tonight's 'Tmnt'". Interview with Charles Webb, www.mtv.com. February 1, 2013.
“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”
“By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face life without fear. Then, no thoughts of past failures or future problems will exist in the mind, and a truly positive mental state will result-fudoshin, the "immovable mind".”
“Children of heroes have glory for breakfast.”
“Machines will never be able to give the thinking process a model of thought itself, since machines are not mortal. What gives humans access to the symbolic domain of value and meaning is the fact that we die.”

Source : "Revolution in the revolution". Interview with Andrew Joscelyne, www.wired.com. January 1, 1995.
“We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.”

Source : John H. Groberg (1993). “The Other Side of Heaven”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
“The money economy thus leaves a large ecological footprint, defined as the amount of land and resources required to meet a typical consumer's needs. For example, with only about 4% of the world's population, the United States, the largest money economy, consumes in excess of one-quarter of the world's energy and materials and generates in excess of 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.”
“The chief merit of language is clearness.”

Source : Galen, Arthur John Brock (1991). “On the natural faculties”, Loeb Classical Library

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