Missing Something famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

  • I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.

  • An electron is no more (and no less) hypothetical than a star. Nowadays we count electrons one by one in a Geiger counter, as we count the stars one by one on a photographic plate.

  • When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

  • Traveling is a constant arriving, while arrival that precludes further traveling is most easily attained by going to sleep or dying.

  • Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

  • If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

  • It's true, I did say I wanted girlfriends," I capitulated hesitantly, "but couldn't we start with something smaller and less terrifying? Like maybe spend a weekend at a crack house? I heard those people are very nonjudgmental, and if you accidentally say something offensive you can just blame it on their hallucinations.

  • You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.

  • You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.