Let my country die for me.
JAMES JOYCEThere is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
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That is jargon – the practice of never calling a spade a spade when you might instead call it a manual earth-restructuring implement – and it is one of the great curses of modern English.
BILL BRYSON -
Some people imagine that they are well informed because they have memorized a whole galaxy of trendy dogmas and fashionable attitudes.
THOMAS SOWELL -
The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God’s sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them.
SEAMUS HEANEY -
A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
BEN JONSON -
Imagination is the beginning of creation.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW -
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity.
JOHN KEATS -
And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification
WILLIAM BLAKE -
Normally we’d draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he’d play next.
BOBBY FISCHER -
Life is too short to do something you don’t want to do.
ADEPERO ODUYE -
Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income – which he then spends sending his son to college.
BILL VAUGHAN -
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
KARL MARX -
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
LAURYN HILL -
Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they’re done towards yourself.
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS -
Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA -
I will laugh at the world. And most of all, I will laugh at myself for man is most comical when he takes himself too seriously.
OG MANDINO