Lefteris Pleasantville Quotes

#1. One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Robert Hughes

#2. When I swim now, I step into the water as though absentmindedly touching a scar.

Leanne Shapton

#3. I shove my reading matter back into my messenger bag (it's a novel about a private magician for hire in Chicago - your taxpayer pounds at work) and go to stand in the doorway.

Charles Stross

#4. The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

Cal Thomas

#5. He used to watch NBC until he decided Brian Williams was a good-natured goof who's too fond of YouTube videos.

Stephen King

#6. Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

Neil Armstrong

#7. Don't be cynical; it leads nowhere. If you work hard, and are kind, amazing things will happen to you.

Conan O'Brien

#8. Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types who wave around Sixties banners to conceal their record of ruthless, beaver-like tunneling to the top.

Camille Paglia

#9. Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

Scott Westerfeld

#10. I think most human beings are dualistic thinkers. It gets them through the day. It gives them a sense of superiority and security - that's what the ego wants.

Richard Rohr

#11. The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

#12. When your child is seized by an idea with the zeal of a fundamentalist Bible salesman from Indiana, stand in his or her way at your own risk.

Marisha Pessl

#13. A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors.

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#14. If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Thomas Bulfinch

#15. I am, a stride at a time

James Joyce