Today Quotes
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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
Live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse.James Cagney
If at first you dont succeed, skydiving is not for you.Wendy Northcutt, Darwin Awards - literature
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count them decide everything.Josef Stalin
From the persistence of noise comes the insistence of rage.
From the emergence of tone comes the divergence of thought.
From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.Visions of Gregorian Chants