Saint Joseph Calasanz Quotes

#1. Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#2. Following the invention of writing, the special form of heightened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collective society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from the collective festival.

Harold Innis

#3. All men are tragic ... All men are comic ... Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat.

G.K. Chesterton

#4. Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Tom Bodett

#5. All human beings err, but they err frequently and in predictable, patterned ways.

Atul Gawande

#6. Unhappy endings are just as important as happy endings. They're an efficient way of transmitting vital Darwinian information. Your brain needs them to make maps of the world, maps that let you know what sorts of people and situations to avoid.

Douglas Coupland

#7. Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it.

Brandon Boyd

#8. Thirty years of nutritional advice have left us fatter, sicker, and more poorly nourished. Which is why we find ourselves in the predicament we do: in need of a whole new way to think about eating.

Michael Pollan