“Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites mor wonder than a star in the heavens.”
Josh Billings (1818–1885) American humorist
Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1873)
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James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
Source: The Wine of Violence (1981), Chapter 4 (p. 44)
“To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”
John Milton book Paradise Lost
i.262-263
Paradise Lost (1667)
“In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.”
Colette (1873–1954) 1873-1954 French novelist: wrote Gigi
The Photographer’s Wife
Gigi (1945)
“An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.”
Andrei Tarkovsky book Sculpting in Time
Source: Sculpting in Time (1986), p. 47
“… you need more than luck to navigate successfully through a thousand sieves in succession.”
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
River out of Eden (1995)
“An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian.”
Henry Suso (1295–1366) Dominican friar and mystic
Quoted in Karl An unloving heart can no more understand a love-filled speaker than a German an Italian Bihlmeyer, Heinrich Seuse. Deutsche Schriften, Stuttgart 1907, p. 199
“He would rather burst a city gate than find it open to admit him.”
Non tam portas intrare patentis
quam fregisse juvat.
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus book Pharsalia
Book II, line 443 (tr. J. D. Duff).
Pharsalia
“People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.”
Ivan Illich book Tools for Conviviality
Tools for Conviviality (1973), p. 10
“He was a shiftless person, roving and magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crased.”
John Aubrey (1626–1697) English writer and antiquarian
Anthony Wood (1667), Life (from 1632 to 1672, written by himself; continued till 1695 a 1695, 1772, 1848, O.H.S. 1891–1900 http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeandtimesant00clargoog#page/n150/mode/2up); as quoted in the Oxford English Dictionary, Draft Revision June 2009, maggoty, adj. http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00299405 <br class="br">Criticism
“Mother, any distance greater than a single span
requires a second pair of hands.”
Simon Armitage (1963) Poet, playwright, novelist
'*', from Book Of Matches.
“The dressmaker doesn't have problems unless the dress has to hide rather than reveal.”
Stefan Zweig book The Post Office Girl
The Post Office Girl (published posthumously in 1982)
Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Ch. 4, p. 173
“I'm only giving orders because I'm more efficient and smarter than you are.”
Jack Vance book The Five Gold Bands
Source: The Five Gold Bands (1950), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) English trader, writer and journalist
The Life and Adventures of http://books.google.com/books?id=IZ9CAAAAYAAJ&q=%22better+to+have+a+Lyon+at+the+Head%22+%22an+Army+of+Sheep+than+a+Sheep+at+the+Head%22+%22an+Army+of+Lyons%22&pg=PA33#v=onepage Mrs. Christian Davies (1741)
Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist
Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 20, A Game of Beads, The wonder of quantum superposition, p. 182
