Polesky Lentz Quotes

#1. In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#2. So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.
What other surprises was she concealing?

Tessa Dare

#3. Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you.

Charlie Parker

#4. The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. (102)

Neil Postman

#5. Creativity is the foundation of wealth. All progress comes from the creative minority. Under capitalism, wealth is less a stock of goods than a flow of ideas, the defining characteristic of which is surprise. If it were not surprising, we could plan it, and socialism would work.

George Gilder

#6. Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

Fernando Pessoa