Bloom County Steve Dallas Quotes

#1. Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. The arts develop skills and habits of mind that are important for workers in the new economy of ideas.

Alan Greenspan

#3. It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.

John Maynard Keynes

#4. I had no idea what to say. A silence descended on us as sudden as the instant fresh oil is poured into a large frying pan.

Haruki Murakami

#5. She smiled sympathetically. She really was beautiful. And not just because she had a pretty face or anything. She believed in love so much, it was impossible not to feel giddy when she talked about it.

Rick Riordan

#6. I suppose the problem ... is that we have an inside and an outside. We've got problems both places, but it's so hard to tell where the one stops and the other takes up.

Samuel R. Delany