Showing posts with label George Steiner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Steiner. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"Life being what it is,
one dreams of revenge."
- Paul Gauguin

"It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit."
- Harry S Truman


"My life is like a zombie movie! I survive
game after game after game, but the football
just keeps coming! The only way to stop team
sports is to aim for the head."
- Matt Milby

"The greatest mistake is trying to
be more agreeable than you can be."
- Walter Bagehot

"A chess genius is a human being who focuses
vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors
on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
- George Steiner

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as
those who insist that there is no God."
- Heywood Broun

Quotaria

I am kind of a paranoiac in
reverse. I suspect people of
plotting to make me happy.
- J. D. Salinger

I disapprove of what you say, but will
defend to the death your right to say it.
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Alice came to a fork in the road.
'Which road do I take?' she asked.
'Where do you want to go?', responded the Cheshire cat.
'I don't know.' Alice answered.
'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.'
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll


We can only prohibit that which we can name.
- George Steiner, After Babel, 1973.

"Realism...has no more to do with
reality than anything else."
- Hob Broun

"A positive attitude may not solve all your
problems, but it will annoy enough people
to make it worth the effort."
- Herm Albright