Irwin Edman Quotes

#1. Go on, then, and let your intent be seriousness.

Donald Cargill

#2. Rincewind ignored this, because it was true.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Zsadist: I didn't make up the rules of this scenario
Wrath: You'll die if you go by yourself.
Zsadist: Well ... I'm kind of ready to get off the ride.
Phury felt his skin get tight all over.

J.R. Ward

#4. The outlook for our country lies in the quality of its idleness.

Irwin Edman

#5. To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality.

Irwin Edman

#6. I wondered if she really was that rude, or if she had some sort of medical condition where the filter between her brain and her mouth had been broken since birth.

Robin Palmer

#7. By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically
abolished major differences in wealth.

Irwin Edman

#8. Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

Irwin Edman

#9. If you want to create new markets, or disrupt old ones, you create ubiquitous infrastructure.

David "Doc" Searls

#10. It's not a proper feedback if it's given to flatter and/or belittle someone. True feedback should be given to empower someone perform better.

Assegid Habtewold

#11. The discovery that the universe has no purpose need not prevent a human
being from having one.

Irwin Edman

#12. Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man could connect himself.

Irwin Edman

#13. Life is always at some turning point.

Irwin Edman

#14. This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods,

Rachel Vincent

#15. I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton.

Charles Lamb

#16. Not to conclude that the worst thing to happen to Michael Devlin was also the best thing to happen to them.

Elizabeth Kelly

#17. Empires won by conquest have always fallen either by revolt within or by defeat by a rival.

John Boyd Orr

#18. The students nodded, emphatically agreeing with a statement which upwards of sixty-two thousand repetitions in the dark had made them accept, not merely as true, but as axiomatic, self-evident, utterly indisputable.

Aldous Huxley

#19. God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

Irwin Edman

#20. The best test of the quality of a civilization is the quality of its leisure.

Irwin Edman

#21. Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.

Pearl Zhu

#22. The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

Irwin Edman

#23. Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun.

Mark Romanek

#24. Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

Irwin Edman

#25. It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Irwin Edman

#26. The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

Irwin Edman

#27. I was a redhead when I first came to America.

Poppy Montgomery