Semiliterate Quotes

#1. All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open.

Maya Angelou

#2. There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.

Roger Kimball

#3. Whenever an art form - music, book, drama, song - is dragged into the seminar rooms, it is finished as a force. Nothing is more deadly than the anatomizing of scholarship, since the study of art, any art - even the obscene, semiliterate yawp and grunt of rap - drains the life from it.

Paul Theroux

#4. You're pregnant? Congratulations, the world needs another mindless, semiliterate consumer.

Dov Davidoff

#5. Jesus evidently thought that human beings still retained a residue of their former glory.

John R.W. Stott

#6. As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Everything is indefinite, misty, and transient; only virtue is clear, and it cannot be destroyed by any force. - MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO

Leo Tolstoy

#8. Making money is good, but there's no pockets in a shroud.

Terry Pratchett

#9. The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream "Allahu Akbar" before some violent action. The true terrorists of our world wear 5000 dollar suits and work in the highest positions of finance, government and business.

Peter Joseph

#10. As many times as [HIV] changes its clothes, it's still wearing the same socks, and now our job is to make sure we get the body to really hate those socks.

Seth Berkley

#11. By the time we began to understand enough about what the world to ask the right questions, our visit is over, and someone else is visiting, asking the same questions.

D.K. LeVick

#12. Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.

Yann Martel

#13. In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

Amy Tan

#14. When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

Robert M. Pirsig

#15. No nation should threaten its neighbors by massing troops along the border.

Joe Biden

#16. Honey bees are amazing creatures. I mean, think about it, do earwigs make chutney?

Eddie Izzard