“There’s nothing like trying to explain something to someone else to make you think about the subject seriously and thoroughly yourself.”
~ Melodie Neal
Archive for December, 2007
explain
differences
“Accept that other people see things differently to you, and have different requirements, and see what you can learn from those differences (actually, that may be the formula for world peace, so let’s just try a local implementation and see how we go).”
~ Melodie Neil
civilization of absurdity
“Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”
~ H.L. Mencken
very tempting
“Unless every other way we have to communicate has broken, I am not joining another Social Network.”
~ a friend of Alec Saunders
Floccinaucinihilipilification
“I loved him for nothing so much as his flocci-nauci-nihili-pili-fication of money.”
~ William Shenstone
[from Wikipedia]
everyone is now dumber
“Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”
~ principal (played by James Downey) in Billy Madison, written by Tim Herlihy & Adam Sandler
clear vision
“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.”
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
[found by Alice]
diseuse
woman who recites dramatic monologues: a woman, usually an actor, who is an accomplished reciter of dramatic monologues. Such recitals, often accompanied by music, were once a popular theatrical entertainment.
one day
“I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once.”
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
