John Zakour quotes

“The thingy? You want me, the most intelligent cognitive processor in the known worlds, to say thingy?""Yes," I reaffirmed. "That is correct."Do you stay up nights thinking of ways to humiliate me?" HARV asked.”
-- John Zakour

#Thinking Quotes #Intelligent Quotes #Night Quotes

“I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.”
-- John Zakour

#Men Quotes #Wings Quotes #Born Quotes

“I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.”
-- John Zakour

#Fall Quotes #Height Quotes #Scared Quotes

“Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.”
-- John Zakour

#Fool Me Once Quotes #Mentor Quotes #Whiskey Quotes

“Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.”

“As a pop star, you don't have to be that smart for people to think you're intelligent.”

“Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.”

“A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.”

“I discovered that the most dangerous mask is the one worn by intelligent people because they are clever at their disguise.”

Source : "Saddam Hussein's Former Doctor Paints a Different Picture" by Charlotte Sector, abcnews.go.com. April 28, 2006.

“Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.”

“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”

“On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.”

“I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.”

“Josh: So, Toby, it’s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”