Thorsness Leo Quotes

#1. It has been an easy, and a popular expedient of late years, to deny the personal or real existence of men and things whose life and condition were too much for our belief.

Homer

#2. A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Hyman Rickover

#3. The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.

Gary Larson

#4. I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Oriana Fallaci

#5. One man's truth is another man's lie.

Louise Phillips

#6. The devolution of American culture takes another great step forward

Michael Chabon

#7. There are two sides, two players. One is light, the other is dark.

John Locke

#8. Of course I wanted to embarrass my children one day. Isn't that why people had kids?
Besides free labor, I mean.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#9. During the really tough first couple of years in prison, I felt like the 23rd Psalm was dictated by the Lord specifically for POWs.

Leo Thorsness

#10. Prior to any generalization about literature, literary texts have to be read, and the possibility of reading can never be taken for granted. It is an act of understanding that can never be observed, nor in any way prescribed or verified.

Paul De Man

#11. *** Teacher: Now class, whatever I ask, I want you to all answer at once.

Various