Notable quotes, excerpts, and profound lines.

[Angst]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....An artist is always out of step with the time. He has to be.
..........— Orson Welles (1916-1985), American actor, producer. Quoted in NY Times (August 7, 1966). From The Great Thoughts by George Seldes (1985, Introduction and a new compilation © 1996 by David Laskin).

[maianhvk]

Salvador Dalí's, no?

[pilotbob]

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

-- Albert Enistein

(what I have been saying about the current software project I work on. We need to reduce complexity without reducing functionality.)

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by maianhvk

"Denial is much more than an Egyptian River."

— Mark Twain

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

-- Albert Enistein

(what I have been saying about the current software project I work on. We need to reduce complexity without reducing functionality.)

I fight with the guy I work with constantly about that. There is beauty in simplicity.

[WT Sharpe]

.....Hence, for liberals, black people are to be "included" and "integrated" into "our" society and culture, while for conservatives they are to be "well behaved" and "worthy of acceptance" by "our" way of life. Both fail to see that the presence and predicaments of black people are neither additions to nor defections from American life, but rather constitutive elements of that life.
..........— Cornel West (1953 - ), American philosopher, writer, musician. Race Matters (1993), Introduction.

[BenG]

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life.

[WT Sharpe]

.....I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
..........— Rebecca West [AKA Dame Rebecca West AKA DBE], penname of Cicely Isabel Fairfield (1892-1983), British writer, journalist, literary critic and travel writer. "Mr. Chesterton in Hysterics," The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17 (1982), ed. by Jane Conner Marcus.

[covingtoncat73]

"You spend your days tring to make a life, Master Sellers," she said, "and all you're doing is building yourself a coffin." Devine's Widow to "King Me" Sellers in Galore by Michael Crummey

[TenaciousBadger]

Originally Posted by BenG

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life.

.. and many short losses...


...and, hopefully, many short victories as well.

[pilotbob]

Never hate anyone. Half of the people you end up hating don’t know, and the other half don’t care.

-- Henry Rollins

[kennyc]

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[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

Never hate anyone. Half of the people you end up hating don’t know, and the other half don’t care.

-- Henry Rollins

[WT Sharpe]

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
..........— Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), American editorialist, journalist, writer, and satirist. The Devil's Dictionary (1911, first published in book form as The Cynic's Wordbook, 1906).

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.
..........— Ambrose Bierce (1842 – 1914?), American editorialist, journalist, writer, and satirist. The Devil's Dictionary (1911, first published in book form as The Cynic's Wordbook, 1906).

What did he have against Canada?

BOb