“I read part of it all the way through.” ~Samuel Goldwyn
"My rattlesnake, my only pet, is dead. He grew sick and would not eat his frogs and died."
----- Lieutenant Col. Robert E. Lee (yes, THAT Robert E. Lee), writing in a letter home to his wife, Mary, in Virginia from Camp Cooper, Texas. Camp Cooper was on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River seven miles north of the site of present Fort Griffin State Historic Site in south central Throckmorton County.
@edgarblythe,
I always thought rattlesnakes were American, I would never have guessed they were French.
@izzythepush,
I recall a few times I could have wished they were in France.
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of the nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima. The people of this world must unite or they will perish.
Robert Oppenheimer
@edgarblythe,
Harpists spend 90% of their time tuning their instruments and the other 10% playing out of tune.
Igor Stravinsky
I suppose it's the plucking of the strings that stretches them and gets them out of tune.
@coluber2001,
The ultimate mystery of being is beyond all categories of thought.
Joseph Campbell
@coluber2001,
All religions are true in that they are metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.
Joseph Campbell
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
Albert Einstein
The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check enclosed."
Dorothy Parker
"Religion is a defense against the experience of God."
Carl Jung
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one.
The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Pope John Paul II
"Those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know."
Lao Tzu
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Jonathan Swift.
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
Phillip Roth
Dialogue from Catch 22:
(Bob Newhart plays Capt. major )
Col. Cathcart: "Good morning major"
Capt. Major: "I'm a captain. Major is my name."
Col. Cathcart: "You're a major now. You're the new Aero Squadron Commander."
Capt. Major: "But I'm in laundry. I don't know anything about flying. I've never even been up in an airplane."
Col. Cathcart: "We all have to make sacrifices."
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
Francoise Sagan
