Discomfited Clavicle Quotes

#1. There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

Shirley Knight

#2. My advice to any diplomat who wants to have good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.

Carl T. Rowan

#3. Every day, and in every way, we're getting meta and meta.

John Wisdom

#4. When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#5. The Middle Ages were long preoccupied with the nature of the concept, or of the notion which the intellect abstracts from the object; but they never doubted that its content was borrowed from the content of the object, still less that the object really existed.

Etienne Gilson

#6. Consciousness is a transformational dynamic force which transforms us by changing our imaginations and perceptions.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' ... Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.

Ilana Mercer

#8. Nicia: God send him the plague!
Timoteo: Why?
Nicia: So he'll get it!

Niccolo Machiavelli

#9. He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.

Jack Kerouac