Isms Quotes

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

All -isms end up in schisms.

What are you going to do when you are not saving the world.

Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

My coping mechanism with my dyslexia is to use wit and humor.

Microorganisms will give you anything you want if you know how to ask them.

A library is a growing organism.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

Most ideologies of the world are not for the individual. They're against the individual. Communism, fascism. Any kind of an ism - almost - they're against the individual.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism.

...every machine is the spiritualization of an organism.

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

The commercialism of yoga, the commercialism of Ayurveda, the commercialism of guru-ism, is difficult. It's difficult because it confuses, it confuses the general populations as to what this is all about, but yet those of us who are trained within a certain tradition, who trained from the ancestral gene bank, so to speak, it is fine, it's not bothersome at all because we must live.

The organism feeds on negative entropy.

I shall refract myself, yes, I shall no longer be known as the prism.

Fashion has always been my defense mechanism.

Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

Liberal capitalism is not perfect, but compared to the other 'isms,' it's far superior.