Undertold Quotes

#1. Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

John Fowles

#2. Boy, take my advice, and never try to invent any thing but
happiness.

Herman Melville

#3. Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members.

Peter Brimelow

#4. When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

Eric Ripert

#5. Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind.

Isak Dinesen

#6. We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#7. Last night I neglected to mention something that bears repeating.

Ron Fairly

#8. Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#9. And one by one, senators disgorge from their vessels, tainting this very nice world with the smug and indulgent cloud of politics and government.

Chuck Wendig

#10. R. V. L. Hartley, the inventor of the Hartley oscillator, was thinking philosophically about the transmission of information at about this time, and he summarized his reflections in a paper, "Transmission of Information," which he published in 1928.

John Robinson Pierce

#11. Dancer, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer -
Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema.

Manohla Dargis

#12. What?"
"That's sweet."
I am sweet. My heart flip-flops and I bite my lip a little bit. Sweet as in a lollipop, or sweet as in a girl you wold like to kiss passionately in the stacks? That's the question.

Carrie Jones

#13. And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

John Bunyan

#14. In the rain-swept afternoon
my heart discovers
the tragedy of autumn
raining from the trees.

Martin Sorrell

#15. A theory that explains everything, explains nothing

Karl Popper