Quotes of the day, November 29
Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have turned a corner on the movie set of reality and have discovered the boards propping up the two-dimensional monuments of human history. The movement of humanism has reached its limit, and now at that limit it is breaking apart into the opposites of mechanism and mysticism and moving along the circumference of a vast new sphere of posthuman thought.
William Irwin Thompson
July 13
I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
July 12
I bear testimony of our Heavenly Father, the Father of our spirits; of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer and Savior; and of the Holy Ghost, who is the means through which we receive divine guidance. I bear testimony that we can personally receive inspiration.
Allan F. Packer
July 11
With pop stars or film stars, we become the object of people's self-definition, as well as the object of sexual definition.
George Michael
July 10
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
Charles William Eliot
July 9
Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.
Steve Earle
