quotes about Very Cool

“Our lives are born of the Ki of the universe. Let us give thanks for being born not as plants and animals, but as human beings blessed with a universal mind.  Let us pledge to fulfill our missions by helping to guide the development and creation of the universe.”

“She taught you how to be a person who refuses anything but the meaningful.”

Source : "SUSAN SONTAG / 1933-2004 / Indomitable critic silenced by cancer" by Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. December 29, 2004.

“In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences of training and cultivation between them and the voices in the chorus, are lost in the unity of purpose and in the fact that they are all human voices lifted by a high motive.”

“The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.”

“Does the brain control you or are you controlling the brain? I don't know if I'm in charge of mine.”

Source : "The Ricky Gervais Show" podcast (Season 2, Episode 6), April 4, 2006.

“There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.”

“Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.”

“well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you”

“I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.”

“There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished...Moreover, the incurable unfinishedness keeps man perpetually immature, perpetually capable of learning and growing.”