C. H. Douglas Quotes
I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
The heart of a woman falls back with the night, / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars / While it breaks, breaks, breaks on the sheltering bars.
I battered the cordons around me And cradled my wings on the breeze, Then soared to the uttermost reaches With rapture, with power, with ease!
Freedom is not doing what you want when you want. Freedom is the power to do what has to be done when it needs to be done.
It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
Ford Prefect suppressed a little giggle of evil satisfaction, realized that he had no reason to suppress it, and laughed out loud, a wicked laugh.
At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.
If you ever find you need help again, you know, if you're in trouble, need a hand out of a corner..." "Yeah?" "Please don't hesitate to get lost.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom.
Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
How do I know the past is not a fiction conceived to reconcile the difference between my state of mind and the present.
There is a feeling which persists in England that making a sandwich interesting, attractive, or in any way pleasant to eat is something sinful that only foreigners do.
That was it. That was really it. She knew that she had told herself that that was it only seconds earlier, but this was now the final real ulimate it.
When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.
I think a nerd is a person who uses the telephone to talk to other people about telephones. And a computer nerd therefore is somebody who uses a computer in order to use a computer.
The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.
There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes
When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.
Hurricane Katrina is without question the worst natural disaster in American history.
John Kerry wants to be the hero in his own drama. He likes King Arthur and the Round Table. He likes the young swashbuckling Churchill, and he loved the early antics of Theodore Roosevelt.
Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
I guess the thing about exposing your heart is that people may not even notice it. Like a flop movie. Or they'll borrow your heart and they'll forget to return it to you.
Venice Beach: proof of the biological impossibility of imagining a person being simultaneously good-looking and poor.
Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
Time perception is very much about how you sequence your activities, how many activities you layer overtop of others, and the types of gaps, if any, you leave in between activities.