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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and if you don't talk about it, no one knows it is there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: american
Birth: September 6, 1928

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Good You Lying Talk Always Zen

One of the influences of Kafka over later writers is not so much in the content of his work as in its form.

John Kessel

Work Over Content Influences Much

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Robert Huber

Sports Time Light Myself Skiing Get

Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.

Robert Zoellick

Change Power Great Waves Political

I've exhibited quite a few of my photographs. I expand them digitally till they're very big. It's an art school thing, I suppose.

Donovan

Art School Big Expand Quite Few

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

Piers Anthony

Book Free Self Internet Possible

Michael Sunday and I are the original members of the band. We first did it just for charities and benefit concerts. It was very ad-hoc, and before we knew it, we were really a band. We went through several drummers and guitarists before we were happy with the line up.

Peter Tork

Happy Sunday Band First Line Up

This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.

Shigeru Miyamoto

Creative People Mind Game Stand Up

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

Nicola Sturgeon

Want Way Reason See Any Tories

We invite all those who have been outside Kenya to come back and join in the rebuilding of our new nation.

Mwai Kibaki

Back New Outside Nation Come Been

How can you analyse what is funny? What's funny to one isn't funny to another... What's funny to you is a personal thing.

Les Dawson

Funny You Personal How Thing

I still am champion in my own right.

Leon Spinks

Champion My Own Right Own Still Am

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

Henry Louis Gates

Life Father Day Bridge Chance End