TagsTagsIt is as if man had been suddenly appointed managing director of the biggest business of all, the business of evolution — appointed without being asked if he wanted it, and without proper warning and preparation. What is more, he can’t refuse the job. Whether he wants to or not, ...
My belief is that “recluse” is a code word generated by journalists… meaning, “doesn’t like to talk to reporters.” — Thomas Pynchon
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. — Peter Sellers
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. — Will Durant
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. — Tim Berners-Lee
A humbly poetic, gently clownlike, supremely innocent, and illimitably affectionate creature (slightly resembling a child’s drawing of a cat, but gifted with the secret grace and obvious clumsiness of a penguin on terra firma) who is never so happy as when egoist-mouse, thwarting altruist-dog, hits her in the head with ...
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other. — Jack Handey
The idea of a sacrificial victim is not new; but that it should be the victim who chooses to be sacrificed, and the sacrificers who deny that any sacrifice has been made, is very new. — W. H. Auden
There are two kinds of fool. One says, “This is old, and therefore good.” And one says, “This is new, and therefore better.” — John Brunner
As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. — Clarence Darrow
Way out west there was this fella I wanna tell ya about. Goes by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least that was the handle his loving parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. See, this Lebowski, he called himself “The Dude”. Now, “Dude” - ...
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks ...
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field. — Niels Bohr
A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not? — Walter Mosley
You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it. — Gustave Flaubert
There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves. — C. P. Snow
One does not become fully human painlessly. — Rollo May
The train came out of the long border tunnel — and there was the snow country. The night had turned white. — Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” — Steven Wright
“Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.” — H. L. Mencken
“If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.” — Confucius