170 quotes found
“My favorite food from my homeland is Guinness. My second choice in Guinness. My third choice - would have to be Guinness.”
“I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.”
“I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.”
“I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.”
“For me, life has either been a wake or a wedding.”
“Delegation is not a binary thing. There are shades of grey between a dictatorship and an anarchy.”
“But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to bother about other people and what they did. They thought they had to get toge...”
“The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.”
“Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppyyour mathematics is.”
“Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind. Withering my intuition leaving all these opportunities behind. Feed my will to feel this moment urging me to cross the line. Reaching...”
“Your behavior reflects your actual purposes.”
“Ah, group projects. Some people love 'em, some people hate 'em - okay, most people hate 'em. Your grade now depends on other people whom you may never have met before, and you've somehow got to do ...”
“In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche, Homer to Shakespeare - you name it, I read it. At times...”
“Forget physics, forget organic chem, forget reading James Joyce's Ulysses - organizing your time is one of the biggest challenges you'll face in your academic career.”
“Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things ...”
“Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of tas...”
“Who am I?" "What is the purpose of my life?" These questions arise spontaneously throughout our lives, either unbidden or through conscious intent. Anyone who wishes to live an authentic life must ...”
“Talc: You have been found guilty of misleading and perverting the young. I decree that you be hung by your underdeveloped testicles until dead. ZORRO”
“Oh, my God!" Ignatius bellowed from the front of the house. "What an egregious insult to good taste.”
“This was the sort of girl who should be attending college, not ones like that dreadful Minkoff girl, that brutal and slovenly girl who had almost been raped by one of the janitors just outside of h...”
