St Cuthbert Quotes

#1. We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#2. Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.

Werner Heisenberg

#3. If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.

Trevor Dunn

#4. History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. In the chalky trough under the blackboard
are lessons dusted and already forgotten.
The teacher is squawking away once more,
scratching into the dark Welsh tabula rasa
the truths so far about God and arithmetic
with the expungible white of fossil shells.

Richie McCaffery

#6. The game of baseball between pitcher and hitter sets up like a game of chess in that you have to anticipate several moves ahead to set up your opponent.

Brad Lidge

#7. Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.

Nikolas Schreck

#8. It's bad to wake up and see a large cat in mid-leap from the rough vicinity of the ceiling.

James Nicoll

#9. Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.

T.H. White

#11. I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.'

Ridley Scott

#12. Writing is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

Lawrence Lessig