Terminal Quotes - Page 4

Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perspective, Sexually, Conditions

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I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

Dennis Potter

Travel, Fear, Airports

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A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things.

Ernest Fenollosa

Eye, Cutting, Doe

Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein (2008). “The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition”, p.82, Fordham Univ Press

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There is never finality in the display terminal's screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the manuscript by a deleted word or an inserted correction, is annulled in idle gusts of electronic massacre.

Alexander Cockburn

Past, Keys, Massacres

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Objectively good spaces to work rarely end up being so; in their faultlessness, quiet and well-equipped studios have a habit of rendering the fear of failure overwhelming. Original thoughts are like shy animals. We sometimes have to look the other way - towards a busy street or terminal - before they run out of their burrows.

Alain de Botton

Running, Animal, Space

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Ability to type on a computer terminal is no guarantee of sanity, intelligence, or common sense.

Gene Spafford

Common Sense, Guarantees, Computer

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A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

Steve Gleason

Running, Moon, Want

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Oh, I've seen copies [of Linux Journal] around the terminal room at The
Labs.

Dennis Ritchie

Labs, Rooms, Linux

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The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.

Beano Cook

Humorous, Airports, Profound

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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.

Oswald Spengler

Strong, War, Men

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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.

Anne Enright

Book, Self, Dying

"Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix & a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get.

Hunter S. Thompson

Growing Up, Heart, Sunshine

Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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Through the healing process of time-and through medical intervention or hospitalization in many cases-most people survive depression which may be its only blessing; but to the tragic legion who are compelled to destroy themselves there should be no more reproof attached than to the victims of terminal cancer.

William Styron

Depression, Cancer, Healing

William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.

Studs Terkel

Talking, People, Office

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In Technologized Desire, the cultural pathologies that mark the panic ecstasy and terminal doom of the posthuman condition are powerfully rehearsed in the language of science fiction. Here, images of prosthetic subjects, zombies, cut-ups and armies of the medieval dead actually slip off the pages of literature to become the terminal hauntology of these technologized times. Technologized Desire is nothing less than a brilliant data screen of future memories. Read it well: it's a survival guide for bodies flatlined by the speed of accelerating technology.

Arthur Kroker

Memories, Army, Cutting

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There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call a terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that once structured society. They can be detected all around us. You can select any of these fragments that activate your imagination for your own use. Let it help shape your own relationship to the unconscious system out of which these symbols have come.

Joseph Campbell

Relationship, Broken, Imagination

"Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor".

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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

Wole Soyinka

Hands, Ethnicity, People

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Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.

Jamie Zawinski

Running, Use, Linux

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Short-term can be terminal.

Mark McCormack

Business, Finance, Profit

Mark H. McCormack (2016). “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School: Notes from a Street-smart Executive”, p.164, Bantam

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A smart terminal is not a smartass terminal, but rather a terminal you can educate.

Rob Pike

Smart, Programming, Educate

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Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.

Brad Garrett

Children, Charity, Helping

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What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it.
What if we were taught to ponder it and reflect on it and talk about it and enter it and rehearse it and try it on?What if, rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category, you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart, and all the while-even if and particularly when you were dying-you would be supported by and be part of a community?

Eve Ensler

Heart, Talking, Ifs And

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If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do believe that life becomes concentrated when it's boundaried and that death is the biggest boundary of all.

Jenny Downham

Believe, Different, Research

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Air travel reminds us who we are. It's the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don't understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls.

Don DeLillo

Mean, Air, Convince Us

Don DeLillo (2012). “The Names”, p.254, Vintage

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To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System.

Luther L. Bohanon

Cancer, Dark, Age

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