Quotes About Association

They are association, location, and imagination.

We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.

The whites do not believe in such things," Charley said. "Believe?" Tupshin was bewildered. "What is this talk of belief? Do they not believe in the sea, then? Or the mountains? There is a thing which is, it is not for believing or not believing.

It only makes sense, he thinks, that people whose only loyalty is to money would find each other. Shit seeks its own level.

Crime 101: "Trust" is a word generally used by convicts and usually in the past tense—i.e., "I trusted him.

When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.

The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

I have been metal all my life, only I did not know about it. The people in this album (Charlemagne) and I, share the same values.

It's almost impossible to live the right life when you have the wrong friends.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

As you know, hairstyle and clothing can change on a daily basis. We've met a lady who identifies people by their wedding rings because this is an identifier that rarely changes…

That didn't sound much like a date, Rosie thought. Useful wasn't a word you used about a date. It was a word you used about a stapler.

Apparently there is a python magazine that is about computers, and a python magazine that's about really big snakes and if you get one you don't really want the other.

Let's let people think we're a couple.

It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance.

I'm glad to have her company to take my mind off things.

It was an exceptional sensation, reading by spiderlight.

Memories are microscopic. Tiny particles that swarm together and apart. Little people, Edison called them. Entities. He had a theory about where they came from and that theory was outer space.

Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.

During this investigation, I became familiar with certain limits of the rational gaze. It tends to fragment reality and to exclude complementarity and the association of contraries from it's field of vision...The rational approach starts from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Fifty years ago in his novel Cat's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut playfully (but prophetically) called these "connections" a "granfalloon"—a group of people who choose, or claim to have, a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless. The author offered two examples, Daughters of the American Revolution and the General Electric Company; if Vonnegut wrote the novel today, the examples could just as easily be Facebook or Twitter.

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.