Tommy Schenker > Tommy's Quotes

“Don't get me wrong, don Juan," I protested. "I want to have an ally, but I also want to know everything I can. You yourself have said that knowledge is power."
"No!" he said emphatically. "Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?”
― Carlos Castaneda, Teachings of Don Juan : A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Separate Reality - Journey to Ixtlan - Tales of Power - Box Set of 4 Volumes

“I don’t like knowing people in the context of things. "Oh, that’s the person I work out with. That’s the person I’m in a book club with. That’s the person I did that show with." Because once the context ends, so does the friendship”
― Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“Metaphors failed him, then. He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.”
― Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”
― Lucy Parsons, Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“Why imagine a world in your head when you could just go visit another one in a book?”
― James Riley, Story Thieves

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“The only way to learn is to live.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can't fake a thought.”
― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

“Creating individuality, which creates and protects others' individualities is good.”
― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
― Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.”
― Linus Torvalds

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

“This was my wake-up call. I opened my eyes to the depressing fact that there are other forces at work in medicine besides science. The U.S. health care system runs on a fee-for-service model in which doctors get paid for the pills and procedures they prescribe, rewarding quantity over quality. We don’t get reimbursed for time spent counseling our patients about the benefits of healthy eating. If doctors were instead paid for performance, there would be a financial incentive to treat the lifestyle causes of disease. Until the model of reimbursement changes, I don’t expect great changes in medical care or medical education.5”
― Michael Greger, How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain