"If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist."

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Atheist Quotes #Alive Quotes #Today Quotes

“I try to begin working with no preconceived ideas.”
“All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet - at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet.”

Source : "Wangari Maathai: 'You Strike The Woman...'". Priscilla Sears, "In Context" (journal), Volume 28, Spring 1991.
“What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition?”
“Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.”

Source : The Guitar World Interview, www.guitarworld.com. November 30, 2012.
“We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.”

Source : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.
“Why do I and everyone I love pick people who treat us like we're nothing"; - "We accept the love we think we deserve,”

Source : "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". www.imdb.com. September, 2012.
“I think every director's different. Every director's got his own style. I mean, when I directed, I basically just screamed for eight hours a day, twelve hours a day.”
“There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.”

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