"If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing."

-- Jeff Bridges

#Lists Quotes #Okay Quotes

“All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.”
“Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.”

Source : "Stamp of the three-footed molossus" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2002.
“Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures see it as descended from its superiors. As the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins put the matter: We are the only people who assume that we have ascended from apes. Everybody else take it for granted that they are descended from gods.”
“Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.”
“Everything in moderation, with occasional excess.”

Source : Neil Peart (2002). “Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road”, p.354, ECW Press
“We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.”
“Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels, rather than elevated apes.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.395
“I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.”

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