"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Mean Quotes #Technology Quotes #Toys Quotes

“How he could be a good user of LSD," I asked, "And know about the spiritual dimension - all that sort of thing - and still be a crook? I don't understand." "Then it's time you did. Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change you character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it...”
“See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.”
“If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 09, 2017
“I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.”

Source : Julie Berry (2013). “All the Truth That's In Me”, p.138, Penguin
“I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.”
“We know what they say, they want all of Palestine (including Israel) and say that negotiations did not work. They talk about wanting reform. That doesn't mean they will do it.”
“I think Rowdy Gaines actually said something like: Katie Ledecky doesn't swim like a man. She swims like Katie Ledecky.And that was a good comment. I swim the way I swim. And I take it as a compliment when somebody says I swim like a man, because, as you said, my stroke is kind of taken after what some of the male freestylers have done. But I'm just trying to go as fast as I can go.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“There must be reasons why we men are so hipped on breasts as if we'd all been weaned too soon.”

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