Random Quotes
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I was very strange back then. I could see I had problems. I would sit in a closet a lot of the time and not come out, or I would sit up on top of my desk, or under my desk, or do weird things like get my wisdom teeth out and bleed all over the hallways.Tim Burton, Burton On Burton
I could have gone on flying through space forever.Yuri A. Gagarin
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.Plato
To err is human, to forgive divine.Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.Erma Bombeck
A human being is an animal suspended in webs of significance which he himself has spun.Clifford Geertz, "Cultural Anthropology" by Nanda
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.George Orwell
We are tied down to a language that makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.Tom Stoppard, Rosencranz And Guildenstern Are Dead
Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas.
(No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)Marcus Tullius Cicero
What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.Isodore Duncan