Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

"A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself."

Niels Bohr

[Nearly Sane]

"There's a statistical theory that if you gave a million monkeys typewriters and set them to work, they'd eventually come up with the complete works of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know this isn't true."

Ian Hart

[Nearly Sane]

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.

Jody Williams

[Nearly Sane]

"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it."

Helen Hayes

[Nearly Sane]

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Nearly Sane]

"If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad."

Aleister Crowley

[Nearly Sane]

"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."

Margaret Thatcher

[Nearly Sane]

"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing."

Hannah Arendt

[ekim]

Nationalism is quite different from patriotism. For nationalism you need enemies.

John le Carre.

[SteveH]

It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine.
P.G.Wodehouse.

[SteveH]

"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher was a vile, stoney-hearted old harridan.
Me. (And I bet that was written for her by a speechwriter; she was notorious for her utter lack of a sense of humour.)

[SteveH]

I must go down to the sea again,
To the lonely sea and the sky.
I left my shoes and socks there -
I wonder if they're dry.

Spike Milligan, after John Masefield.

[Nearly Sane]

Margaret Thatcher was a vile, stoney-hearted old harridan.
Me. (And I bet that was written for her by a speechwriter; she was notorious for her utter lack of a sense of humour.)

Ah more misogyny.

[Nearly Sane]

"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."

John Kenneth Galbraith

[SteveH]

Ah more misogyny.

One doesn't have to be a misogynist to detest Thatcher and all she stood for.

[SteveH]

Ah more misogyny.

You appear, in recent posts on various threads, to be trying to goad me into losing my temper, using some over-ripe language towards you, and getting suspended again. I'm afraid, though, that you won't succeed, as I am ignoring you from now on, unless you say something really silly, when I will answer you politely. You might end up looking a bit foolish.

[Nearly Sane]

You appear, in recent posts on various threads, to be trying to goad me into losing my temper, using some over-ripe language towards you, and getting suspended again. I'm afraid, though, that you won't succeed, as I am ignoring you from now on, unless you say something really silly, when I will answer you politely. You might end up looking a bit foolish.

Again you seem to be under the misapprehension that people cannot just be disagreeing with you but must be doing so out of some ulterior motive.

[Nearly Sane]

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

Gunter Grass

[Sebastian Toe]

Alcohol will not solve all of your problems but neither will water!

Anon.

[Nearly Sane]

"You can't say you're going to jump the Grand Canyon and then jump some other canyon."

Evel Knievel

[Nearly Sane]

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

Alan Garner

[Aruntraveller]

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”

Stephen King

[Nearly Sane]

"Morality is the weakness of the brain."

Arthur Rimbaud

[Nearly Sane]

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

Ursula K. Le Guin

[SteveH]

We ask not slothful ease from toil -
'Tis nature's law, 'tis God's decree -
But let the hand that tills the soil
Be, like the wind that fans it, free.
From a 19th-Century anti-slavery hymn.