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“One to a customer was the rule: one body; one mind; one swing through life. - Tempus”
Source : Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.56, Paradise Publishing
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“Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now.”
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“Everybody else goes out and plays a show as if it's their album, which is boring. I'd rather sit at home and listen to the album, because I hate to be in a smoke-filled, loud room - that's not enjoyable for me at all...I always look up to guys who can sit and do dinner music...they're singing in tune and playing somebody else's music, and I don't think I could do that...it's the shittiest job in the world.”
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“Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.”
Source : Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.59, Cowley Publications
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“In order to bring a nation to support the burdens of maintaining great military establishments, it is necessary to create an emotional state akin to war psychology. There must be the portrayal of an external menace. This involves the development to a high degree of the nation-hero, nation-villain ideology and the arousing of the population to a sense of sacrifice. Once these exist, we have gone a long way on the path to war.”
Source : "War, Peace and Change".
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“Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.”
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“I had been walking in silence for so long,I had almost forgotten what my own voice sounded like.My knees were tired;my toes were beginning to ache.”
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“The 'almighty dollar' is the true divinity, and its worship is universal.”
Source : Isabella L. Bird (2012). “A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains”, p.127, Courier Corporation
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“Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate.”
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“Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.”
Source : "The Hidden Stream". Book by Ronald Knox, p. 105, 1952.
