Kurken Quotes

#1. Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

Marshall McLuhan

#2. The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Irving Babbitt

#3. Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

Paul Giamatti

#4. He was either stout or portly, wealthy enough that a vocabulary had been devised to conceal his girth.

Renee Patrick

#5. Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

Frederick The Great

#6. A husband, a wife and some kids is not a family. It's a terribly vulnerable survival unit.

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self - the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells - and keep an objective eye on the reader.

William Zinsser

#8. We don't tolerate terrorism. We go after the terrorists and those who support them and those who justify their actions.

Adel Al-Jubeir

#9. There are times when looking on the bright side takes a lot ot work. I'm taking a break from it tonight. I'll be back at it tomorrow.

C.C. Alma