Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

Robert Jay Lifton

And I thought about the psychic numbing involved in strategic projections of using hydrogen bombs or nuclear weapons of any kind. And I also thought about ways in which all of us undergo what could be called the numbing of everyday life.

Martha Beck

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.

Julian Barnes

To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock.

Mark E. Smith

I used to be psychic, but I drank my way out of it.

Mel Brooks

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes a primary concern.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The psychic entropy peculiar to the human condition involves seeing more to do than one can actually accomplish and feeling able to accomplish more than what conditions allow.

Terence McKenna

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

Roger Ebert

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

William Hazlitt

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Mary Quant

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Tanith Lee

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

Russell Brand

The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit tree-hugging piffle but because we live on it, currently without alternatives.

William Gibson

The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.

Ryan Reynolds

I have bullshit moments every once in a while - like every actor does.

Nate Silver

Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don’t have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically,

Scott Lynch

My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

Marc Maron

I'm not a moron, but science fiction to me requires a suspension of disbelief and honest curiosity or fascination in that kind of bullshit. I've just never been able to make that jump, really. I like things to be more organic.

Kevin Hart

There's actually a lot of bullshit in my Google search. They killed me in one of them! I died in one of my Google searches.

Justin Halpern

You're like a tornado of bullshit right now. We'll talk again when your bullshit dies out over someone else's house.

P. C. Cast

no matter what bullshit you heard, hes still mine! he'll always be mine