"We project our ideas about ourselves into the heavens and call them ideas about God."

“I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.”

“In activities other than purely logical thought, our minds function much faster than any computer yet devised.”

Source : Daniel Crevier (1993). “AI: the tumultuous history of the search for artificial intelligence”, Basic Books (AZ)

“In chess, as in life, opportunity strikes but once.”

“I'm not playing for other people; if I start thinking in those terms I would put too much pressure on myself. I play basketball because that is what I love to do.”

Source : Interview with Eric Guilleminault, www.nbadraft.net. June 16, 2010.

“Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!" Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back.”

Source : Suzanne Brockmann (2013). “Into the Storm: Troubleshooters 10: Troubleshooters 10”, p.311, Hachette UK

“Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.”

“All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.”

Source : Karl Barth (2004). “Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation”, p.220, A&C Black

“Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.”