Random Quotes
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...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...Robert Fulghum
For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.Winnie the Pooh
"Where did you put it?"
"Put what?"
"You know?"
"Where do you think?"
"Oh."Nicholas Negroponte, Director of the MIT Media Lab, stating his ideal model of human-computer interaction
Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.Joel Hawes
I have found you an argument: but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.Samuel Johnson
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I think I am a verb.R. Buckminster Fuller
What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.Ralph Waldo Emerson
All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million.Tommy Lasorda, on pitcher Fernando Valenzuela