Staughton Lynd Quotes

#1. Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ...

Joe Satriani

#2. Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#3. I'm the worst kind of criminal."
"And what kind is that?"
"The kind that got caught.

Brandon Mull

#4. He said he loves her more because she makes him smile. Fine! I'll give him the Glasgow smile. Beat that, bitch!

Natalya Vorobyova

#5. Friendship is not going to stand the pressure of greatly great guidance for quite extensive.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#6. One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#7. His whole being is a ridiculously strong magnet to my eyes, and I'm beginning to give up trying to resist him. It seems my eyes are craving him as much as my body.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#8. Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#9. And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

Jane Austen

#10. Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#11. The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#12. [History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#13. During Christmas, open your heart with love to appreciate the beauty of life and all the presents that you have received from the earth.

Debasish Mridha

#14. When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#15. When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.

Criss Jami

#16. Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#17. There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#18. Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.

Willem Dafoe

#19. Almost any game with any ball is a good game.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#20. Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#21. Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#22. Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#23. I think there are always actor parts, and then there are movie-star parts, and an actor's always an actor until he does a movie-star part.

Lynda Obst

#24. Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#25. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

C. G. Jung

#26. I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

Robert Staughton Lynd

#27. Consciousness is the fact that we think and feel and that a world, the world shows up for us.

Alva Noe