Ira Shor Quotes

#1. Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Larry McMurtry

#2. There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Elliott Smith

#3. Words without deeds is an affront to the principle that guides our Nation and makes a mockery of the values we as public servants claim to love.

Jon Corzine

#4. Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Wang Jianlin

#5. I have tried sedulously not to laugh at the acts of man, nor to lament them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.

Baruch Spinoza

#6. I never believed that Nixon could fully resurrect himself. And the proof of that was in the obits.

Ben Bradlee

#7. There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.

Tucker Max

#8. I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.

Alex Honnold

#9. On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.

Lawrence R. Klein

#10. I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.

Nicholson Baker

#11. i used to think
i was broken

because
i never once

spent my
daydreams

plucking
swollen pomegranates

from
someone else's tree.

- then i learned that society is broken, not me.

Amanda Lovelace

#12. All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

Friedrich Nietzsche