Quote Archive

This section of the blog archives the quotes that have appeared under the title bar. I will try to change the quote monthly, but it will more likely be whenever the urge strikes me...

8-12-06
The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.
- Jacques Barzun


8-7-06
Be careful! Minotaurs lie in wait in the labyrinths of memory.
– Isabel Allende

7-24-06
He’s a poet (he’s a picker). He’s a prophet (he’s a pusher). He’s a pilgrim and a preacher and a problem when he’s stoned. He’s a walking contradiction, partly truth and partly fiction, taking every wrong direction on his lonely way back home.
- Kris Kristofferson, "the Pilgrim, Chapter 33"

7-20-06
Landis chased down an 11-man breakaway, killed them and ate them, built a new bicycle out of their bones, and roared away in a pillar of fire to win the stage to Morzine and jump back to within 30 seconds of the yellow jersey.
- Patrick O'Grady, discussing Stage 17 of the 2006 Tour de France

6-7-06
Here is the world you asked for,
gorgeous and opportune,
here is nine o’clock harbor-wide,
and a glinting code: promise and warning.
The morning’s the size of heaven.

What will you do with it?
- Mark Doty, from “Long Point Light”

5-25-06
You cannot judge a race. Any man who judges by the group is a peawit.
Michael Shaara, from The Killer Angels

5-08-06
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

5-04-06
A ship in the harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
John A. Shedd

5-01-06
Remove far from me falsehood and lies. Give me neither poverty nor riches. Feed me with the food that is needful for me.
Proverbs 30:8, American Standard Versino

4-20-06
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.
Lloyd Dobler (John Cusack), in Say Anything

4-8-06
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky (quoted on forbiddenlibrary.com)

4-7-06
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Charles Bradlaugh (quoted on forbiddenlibrary.com)

4-5-06
As a result of a respectful regard for other animals we may find that we are being led onto traveled ways that were once invisible to us, and in their deep alliance with natural forces we find a new depth in ourselves. This is the common ground for all living things.
John Hay, in “Going Out”, from The Run

3-31-06
To have the human attributes of mind and spirit and the race's ability to control its own environment does not give me the wit to beat the infinitely various will of life at its own game. All I could wish for would be to join it.
- John Hay, in "the Drive to Be" from The Run

3-30-06
When I hear that robin sing
Well I know it’s coming on spring
and we’re starting a new life
- Van Morrison, from "Starting a New Life", on Tupelo Honey

3-17-06
Whoever wants self-fulfillment must exert willpower over a long stretch of time, besides possessing talent and knowing how to manage it.
- Jacques Barzun, from Dawn to Decadence: 500 years of Western Cultural History

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This section of the blog archives the quotes that have appeared under the title bar. I will try to change the quote monthly, but it will more likely be whenever the urge strikes me...

4-20-06
I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that.

4-8-06
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky (quoted on forbiddenlibrary.com)

4-7-06
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
Charles Bradlaugh (quoted on forbiddenlibrary.com)

4-5-06
As a result of a respectful regard for other animals we may find that we are being led onto traveled ways that were once invisible to us, and in their deep alliance with natural forces we find a new depth in ourselves. This is the common ground for all living things.
John Hay, in “Going Out”, from The Run

3-31-06
To have the human attributes of mind and spirit and the race's ability to control its own environment does not give me the wit to beat the infinitely various will of life at its own game. All I could wish for would be to join it.
- John Hay, in "the Drive to Be" from The Run

3-30-06
When I hear that robin sing
Well I know it’s coming on spring
and we’re starting a new life
- Van Morrison, from "Starting a New Life", on Tupelo Honey

3-17-06
Whoever wants self-fulfillment must exert willpower over a long stretch of time, besides possessing talent and knowing how to manage it.
- Jacques Barzun, from Dawn to Decadence: 500 years of Western Cultural History

3-14-06
All too often people confuse being able to think with their actually having done so.
- Michael Stackpole, from A Secret Atlas