Contract Contemplation Gifts

"... Of course it's 'a lot higher than my original estimate'. If I'd given you an accurate estimate, you'd never have given me the job."

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

Maximilian could see far away places,but he never told anyone.

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

"The overthinker"

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

Zenemies.

"I could catch a bicyclist, well maybe not a bicyclist, but I could catch a jogger, definitely."

'Are you not thinking what I'm not thinking?'

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

'Being a nobody isn't so bad...You don't have to worry about becoming a has-been.'

"After searching for the sun all night, it finally dawned on me..."

Thought bubble mirrors the cloud in the sky.

'It's normal -- Enlightenment freaks a lot of people out.'

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I... I..."

'He followed me home, Mom. Can I sign him to a five-year, $80-million contract?..'

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

"How come I can't remember what I forget, but I always remember that I forgot something!"

Sign on wall of spacious empty hall of museum: 'Air & Space Exhibit'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

"Professor Williams had at first been reluctant to join the Assistant Deans in their Think Great Thoughts aerobics. He later came to enjoy the activity."

'Thoreau had his Walden Pond, C.J. has his water cooler.'

"We're studying the legal principles of 'crossing a heart and hoping to die'."

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

"Exactly what is this 'nothing' I've been hearing so much about?"

Soren Kierkegaard

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

'Have you ever imagined a world without stupid hypothetical questions?'

"No, wait. What if the cop character is the murderer, and the mobster guy is completely innocent?"

"I don't feel ready to commit to a cacoon, either, but do you ever worry we'll wake up one day and be forty and still caterpillars?"

'A ground ball to deep short, handled beautifully by Santana...'