"You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth."

-- John J. Geddes

#Fear Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Tails Quotes

“When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.”
“Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.”
“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.”
“I worry that the Senate is working to consider a series of little-noticed provisions in comprehensive immigration reform that may provide a pathway to a national ID card for all individuals present in the United States - citizens and noncitizens,”
“[On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer.' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder.' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition.”

Source : Joan Wickersham (2009). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.”

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