Crepidarian Quotes

#1. The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

William Hazlitt

#2. The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology.

Howard Rheingold

#3. As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

Patricia Heaton

#4. There's nothing which the lapse of time will not either extinguish or improve.

Publilius Syrus

#5. In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more complete picture we consciously perceive.

Leonard Mlodinow

#6. Socks may eat wherever they want to.

Dorothea Kent

#7. Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Littlefinger.

George R R Martin

#8. Journalists were never intended to be the cheerleaders of a society, the conductors of applause, the sycophants. Tragically, that is their assigned role in authoritarian societies, but not here - not yet.

Chet Huntley

#9. As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are
the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in
much poison.

Ovid

#10. The normal sequence is that energy is prompted at the perceptual system, passes into consciousness, and thence to the motor system, where it is discharged by action. (I feel an unpleasant sensation, realize that I have been bitten by a mosquito, raise my hand, and swat the insect.)

Sigmund Freud

#11. No, I got a photo of my man draped in all of your women.

Kristen Proby

#12. I've worn it to church before. Camouflage and the other clothes.

Si Robertson

#13. We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

Nnedi Okorafor