Quotes

[Turtle]

A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens. ~ John Updike

[InfiniteNow]

In the Beginning, Man Created God.

[Turtle]

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
All men make faults.

~ William Shakespeare ~

[Turtle]

Equalia! Where everyone is equal but we're in charge. ~ Lisa Simpson

[InfiniteNow]

"And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter"
~Thomas Jefferson
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams

[Turtle]

Olympian, adj. Relating to a mountain in Thessaly, once inhabited by gods, now a repository of yellowing newspapers, beer bottles and mutilated sardine cans, attesting the presence of the tourist and his appetite.

His name the smirking tourist scrawls,
Upon Minerva's temple walls,
Where thundered once Olympian Zeus,
And marks his appetite's abuse. --Averil Joop

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

[Turtle]

America is the joy of complication. ~ Simon Schama

[Boerseun]

"Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to use tomato in fruit salad."
- Some wiseguy on the radio this morning

[Turtle]

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. ~ James Thurber

[Turtle]

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. ~Samuel Butler