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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 5f869b7 | enchantment is the means through which we may gain access to sacredness. Entertainment is the means through which we distance ourselves from it. | Neil Postman | ||
| c147bd5 | It would be a serious mistake to think of Billy Graham or any other television revivalist as a latter-day Jonathan Edwards or Charles Finney. Edwards was one of the most brilliant and creative minds ever produced by America. His contribution to aesthetic theory was almost as important as his contribution to theology. His interests were mostly academic; he spent long hours each day in his study. He did not speak to his audiences extemporaneo.. | Neil Postman | ||
| ccf8f74 | I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another. | Jaroslav Hašek | ||
| 9c1a63c | This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity. | svejk the-good-soldier-svejk | Jaroslav Hašek | |
| 48c91ed | Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory .. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c72fd49 | Sitting in the deserted law offices, Sanders had the feeling that he was all alone in the world, with nobody but Fernandez and the encoraching darkness. Things were happening quickly; this person he had never met before today was fast becoming a kind of lifeline for him. | Michael Crichton | ||
| c4f3b3f | The trouble with this country," he said, "is that the women have no guts.They'd rather slink off and have a dangerous, illegal operation performed than change the laws. The legislators are all men, and men don't bear babies; they can afford to be moralistic." | Michael Crichton | ||
| 3ee4b8a | Whether it was Disney or the Navy, management guys always behaved the same. They never understood the technical issues; and they thought that screaming was the way to make things happen. And maybe it was, if you were shouting at your secretaries to get you a limousine. But screaming didn't make any difference at all to the problems that Arnold now faced. The computer didn't care if it was screamed at. The power network didn't care if it was.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 0efe824 | Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 4e597c5 | It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 13873a7 | ttwqf l'shy lGrby@ `n 'n tkwn kdhlk bf`l ltkrr | Michael Crichton | ||
| e61b7d5 | Now, what is interesting about this process is that, by the time someone has acquired the ability to kill with his bare hands, he has also matured to the point where he won't use it unwisely. So that kind of power has a built-in control. The discipline of getting the power changes you so that you won't abuse it. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 6acdf76 | But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash. Or beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is. | Michael Crichton | ||
| ed1d6cf | Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 5de9ff8 | The late twentieth century has witnessed a remarkable growth in scientific interest in the subject of extinction. It is hardly a new subject--Baron Georges Cuvier had first demonstrated that species became extinct back in 1786, not long after the American Revolution. Thus the fact of extinction had been accepted by scientists for nearly three-quarters of a century before Darwin put forth his theory of evolution. And after Darwin, the many c.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 383ca04 | Because there haven't been any advances," Malcolm said. "Not really. Thirty thousand years ago; when men were doing cave paintings at Lascaux, they worked twenty hours a week to provide themselves with food and shelter and clothing. The rest of the time, they could play, or sleep, or do whatever they wanted. And they lived in a natural world, with clean air, clean water, beautiful trees and sunsets. Think about it. Twenty hours a week. Thir.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 8b610e1 | These kids were smart, they were enthusiastic, and they were young enough so that the schools hadn't destroyed all their interest in learning. They could still actually use their brains, which in Thorne's view was a sure sign they hadn't yet completed a formal education. | Michael Crichton | ||
| b6f7fc6 | The reason I ask," Malcolm said, "is that I'm told large predators such as lions and tigers are not born man-eaters. Isn't that true? These animals must learn somewhere along the way that human beings are easy to kill. Only afterward do they become man-killers." "Yes, I believe that's true," Grant said. "Well, these dinosaurs must be even more reluctant than lions and tigers. After all, they come from a time before human beings--or even lar.. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 2443e65 | What is your itinerary?" "To meet my maker." "Ah. Well. You're in luck. And what do you want to say to your maker?" "A most mechanical and dirty hand [laughs]. I shall have such revenges on you...both. The things I will do, what they are, yet I know not. But they will be the terrors of the earth. You don't know where you are, do you? You're in a prison of your own sins." | Michael Crichton | ||
| c8701e4 | And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly. | Michael Crichton | ||
| 3b713e7 | The story is the same, over and over, only the facts are different and the names and the places. | Robert Crichton | ||
| 3a9a50a | If there is something right in Beauvoir's claim that one is born, but rather becomes a woman, it follows that woman itself is a term in process, a becoming, a constructing that cannot rightfully be said to originate or to end. As an ongoing discursive practice, it is open to intervention and resignification. | Judith Butler | ||
| b2506c7 | Precariousness and precarity are intersecting concepts. Lives are by definition precarious: they can be expunged at will or by accident; their persistence is in no sense guaranteed | life precariousness precarity | Judith Butler | |
| 988fb79 | What, in nature," Kit asked, "is the most beautiful thing you've seen? Or the most terrible?" "The Dismals," Giles answered promptly. "A beautiful aberration in the lay of the land--North Alabama. A section mysteriously lowered, strewn with boulders, ferny, mossy, cooler--the vegetation, they say, typical of Canada. There the creek runs clear, but all other Alabama rivers and waterways are muddy with sediment. I even like the name--the Dism.. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| d47fbdb | Her eyes were as green as the sea, and forever I forgave the sea for not appearing blue. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 0b8dadb | Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what she thought, but I knew that the question must be of greater interest to someone of her age than to me. But our conversation had been completely honest, and before I could speak, honesty and tact had joined hands in my answer. "I have no faith at all," I said, "but sometimes I have hope." I rather think," she replied, "that total annih.. | life mortality nature | Sena Jeter Naslund | |
| c73102f | Of our pasts we seemed to know all we needed to know. Nothing was concealed, and though nothing was overtly revealed, all was known. In guilt and in forgiveness we counted ourselves equals, and always had. The sun himself envied us. | Sena Jeter Naslund | ||
| 62827c8 | Las Vegas is not the kind of town where you want to drive down Main Street aiming a black bazooka-looking instrument at people. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 7c9b745 | Finally we came over a rise and I saw the Caribbean...My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach was white as salt, and cut off from the world by a ring of steep hills that faced the sea. We were on the edge of a large bay and the water was that clear, turquoise color that you get with a white sand bottom. I had never seen such a place. I wanted to take off all my clothes and ne.. | desire peace | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| f786d03 | When you're asked to stay out of a bar you don't just punch the owner--you come back with your army and tear the place down, destroy the whole edifice and everything it stands for. No compromise. If a man gets wise, mash his face. If a woman snubs you, rape her. This is the thinking, if not the reality, behind the whole Hell's Angels act. | philosophy retaliation | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 02162f3 | Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 6c2dd24 | There is a beautiful consistency about Buzzard; he is a porcupine among men, with his quills always flared. If he won a new car with a raffle ticket bought in his name by some momentary girlfriend, he would recognize it at once as a trick to con him out of a license fee. He would denounce the girl as a hired slut, beat up the raffle sponsor, and trade off the car for five hundred Seconals and a gold-handled cattle prod. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 6929937 | I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel--white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| ce1da6f | Too weird to live, and too rare to die. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 7d8a0d2 | The only thing I ever saw that came close to Objective Journalism was a closed-circuit TV setup that watched shoplifters in the General Store at Woody Creek, Colorado. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| f4ef1f8 | At the stroke of midnight in Washington, a drooling red-eyed beast with the legs of a man and a head of a giant hyena crawls out of its bedroom window in the South Wing of the White House and leaps fifty feet down to the lawn...pauses briefly to strangle the Chow watchdog, then races off into the darkness...towards the Watergate, snarling with lust, loping through the alleys behind Pennsylvania Avenue, and trying desperately to remember whi.. | politics werewolf | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| cb99e11 | I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called , and I would give a ball to wake up tomorrow on some empty ridge with a herd of beatniks grazing in the clearing about 200 yards below the house. And then to squat with the big boomer and feel it on my shoulder with the smell of grease and powder and, later, a little blood. | beatnik big-sur correspondence criticism hunting kerouac letters | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| cca4123 | Far from being freaks, the Hell's Angels are a logical product of the culture that now claims to be shocked at their existence. The generation represented by the editors of Time has lived so long in a world full of Celluloid outlaws hustling toothpaste and hair oil that it is no longer capable of confronting the real thing. For twenty years they have sat with their children and watched yesterday's outlaws raise hell with yesterday's world ... | hollywood outlaws | Hunter S. Thompson | |
| 33eaae5 | One of the strangest things about these five downhill years of the Nixon presidency is that despite all the savage excesses committed by the people he chose to run the country, no real opposition or realistic alternative to Richard Nixon's cheap and mean-hearted view of the American Dream has ever developed. It is almost as if that sour 1968 election rang down the curtain on career politicians. This is the horror of American politics today .. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| af9a9da | I like this book and I especially like the title. Only a fool or a whore would call it anything else. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 8797147 | In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome: | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 1ff01f0 | Stand in front of this fantastic machine, my friend, and for just 99C/ your likeness will appear, two hundred feet tall, on a screen above downtown Las Vegas. Ninety-nine cents more for a voice message. "Say whatever you want, fella. They'll hear you, don't worry about that. Remember you'll be two hundred feet tall." Jesus Christ. I could see myself lying in bed in the Mint Hotel, half-asleep and staring idly out the window, when suddenly a.. | Hunter S. Thompson | ||
| 3fd7726 | For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start. | business business-advice executive management marketing social-media | Brian E Boyd | |
| f6efada | Information was control. | Joan Didion |