Eustachian Valve Quotes

#1. We Americans seem to know everything about the last twenty-four hours but very little of the last sixty centuries or the last sixty years."4

Neil Postman

#2. Preach it, I say preach it.

Maya Angelou

#3. The night I was recognized for 'Daughters' at the Grammys was the night this record started. I knew I had bought the time to learn everything I needed before I started this one. 'Continuum' is not a shot in the dark, it's not a guesstimation.

John Mayer

#4. Antidepressants. The thought of this girl actually being depressed made me want to grab the whole planet and throw it into the sun. Well, more than usual anyway.

David Wong

#5. You never say to a president for certain you wouldn't do anything, but I have no - look at me now - I have no desire to sit on the Supreme Court, none. It would be a great honor , but I have no desire, any more than George Mitchell did.

Joe Biden

#6. They looked at me, in my hippie garb, with horror and disgust, the Decline of Western Civilisation suddenly plopped in their midst.

Paul Monette

#7. if there is a god, he sure hates people

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#8. It is a profoundly erroneous truism that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

Alfred North Whitehead

#9. Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Livy

#10. She listened for Terrible's voice in her head and didn't hear it.
Of course, she also couldn't feel her extremities. But life was full of tradeoffs, right?

Stacia Kane

#11. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

#12. All I've got to do today is smile.

Paul Simon

#13. The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.

Noam Chomsky

#14. The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.

Ivan Illich