Visdomstand Quotes

#1. That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

Arianna Huffington

#2. Language dazzles and deceives because it is masked by faces, because we see it emerging from the lips, because lips please and eyes beguile. But words on paper, black on white, reveal the naked soul.

Guy De Maupassant

#3. When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.

Herman Melville

#4. You're not 'everyone else', you're different. You get to see the real me," he told her.

Stylo Fantome

#5. We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#6. Nelson Mandela was a man of incomparable honor, unconquerable strength, and unyielding resolve
a saint to many, a hero to all who treasure liberty, freedom and the dignity of humankind.

Morgan Freeman

#7. In Google's world, public space is just something that stands between your house and the well-reviewed restaurant that you are dying to get to.

Evgeny Morozov

#8. People believe only what they want to believe.

Gayle Forman

#9. Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Comte De Lautreamont

#10. I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

Imogen Cunningham

#11. Happiness is not dependent upon outer circumstance. Happiness is falling in love with everything around you, everything inside of you.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Human beings appear to be happy just so long as they have a future to which they can look forward - whether it be a "good time" tomorrow or an everlasting life beyond the grave.

Alan W. Watts

#13. Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

#14. Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

Benjamin Disraeli

#15. Junk stands and antique markets are the perfect place to pick up clues about the history of a country, region or town.

Judith Miller