Plinga Family Farm Quotes

#1. The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.

Richard Shweder

#2. Like so many of his successors in the language-crank world today, though, (Jonathan) Swift not only loathes (the) banal and common change (language); he ascribes it to moral failing.

Robert Lane Greene

#3. God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom.

Winkie Pratney

#4. It is probably better that the world knows only the result, not the conditions under which it was achieved; because knowledge of the artist's sources of inspiration might bewilder them, drive them away and in that way nullify the effect of the excellent work.

Thomas Mann

#5. He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.

William Gurnall

#6. It's such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, 'Action!' It's like being a little mini-god.

Brian Helgeland

#7. Life is mostly freehand.

Ivan Doig