James Lileks Famous Quotes



"I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe."

"Ill feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youve gone over to the Dark Side. But Ill be fine. Thats the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust."


James Lileks Quotations






More Famous Quotes


The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
Robert Byrne

"TAKING THE FIRST FOOTSTEP with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered paradise."
Zoroaster

Mike and Trent Vegas baby Vegas
Swingers

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Sharon Salzberg

"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings."
Grard Depardieu

Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
Sir Arthur Eddington

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence.
Jacques Maritain

"Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste."
William A Smith

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Jacob Braude

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
John Wooden