Timothy Morton Quotes

The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.

Timothy Morton

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NatureProblemTroubleFixModern

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over, collected hundreds and hundreds of rejection slips.

Jerry Spinelli

MeRejectionNobodyHardOverOut

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

Jen Lancaster

MeBookPoliticalSaidNothing

That is, we are bombarded by all kinds of images and influences and we have to fend some of them off if we're to take in any of them, or to carry through just our ordinary day's work, or really deepen whatever we have to do or say.

Robert Jay Lifton

WorkDaySayWhateverThroughCarry

If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a day than wild animals that have to go out into the jungle and hunt for opportunities in order to eat.

Matt Taibbi

DayOpportunitiesGrowFatHouseGo

I think I beat myself up more than anyone else.

Andy Mineo

MyselfThinkMoreUpBeatThan

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

LifeFireManWindowSuicideGuilty

There is no more final end than death.

John Thaw

DeathEndMoreFinalThan

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred.

Tommy Chong

MusicYouCareerKnowAlwaysBig

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.

Miroslav Vitous

MusicSearchYouInfiniteTwoBass

My passion stems from seeking world peace and finding how we can live together creatively rather than violently.

Mimi Kennedy

LivePassionTogetherPeaceWorld

A lot of people saved IBM. Yes, I was the leader of that team, but I could never have done it without a group of IBMers helping me.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

LeaderPeopleMeTeamDoneGroup

I'm not the type to cut back on hot showers, but there's no harm in hot water when it's warmed by the sun.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

WaterSunBackHotCutHarm

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