tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post1968605204266225477..comments2023-10-14T06:19:18.000-05:00Comments on Rocket Scientist: Saturday Quote-a-thon: Assumptions and StubbornnessStephanie Barrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-9903453980140553042009-07-26T10:32:48.804-05:002009-07-26T10:32:48.804-05:00You know, the Mother, one thing about collecting q...You know, the Mother, one thing about collecting quotes is how often I found something I never expected coming out of someone's mouth. People I despise say things that inspire me. People I admire say something thoughtless.Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-72895922911863786782009-07-26T09:56:29.591-05:002009-07-26T09:56:29.591-05:00Love the Bragg quote.
And the Conan-Doyle quote i...Love the Bragg quote.<br /><br />And the Conan-Doyle quote is fascinating, considering he was unapologetically determined that spiritualism was real.The Motherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15157821003454766570noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-44317035971674762102009-07-25T23:50:41.664-05:002009-07-25T23:50:41.664-05:00Fabulous...and inspiring...and sometimes pretty am...Fabulous...and inspiring...and sometimes pretty amusing list here...many thanks!WillOaks Studiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00986825696455165387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-1840189652356190242009-07-25T23:22:52.340-05:002009-07-25T23:22:52.340-05:00When a true genius appears in this world you may k...When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.<br />--Jonathon Swift<br /><br />NASA should put that quote in its media pack.Aron Sorahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09327072976517417107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-54694631686259428752009-07-25T15:55:49.013-05:002009-07-25T15:55:49.013-05:00Max, darling, I pre-wrote all my blogs last weeken...Max, darling, I pre-wrote all my blogs last weekend including the Quote-a-thon on change you asked for.<br /><br />Jeff, I'll see what I can do about your question on Ask Me Anything. I can go to your website, but I can't give you an opinion on Harry Potter's latest movie. I've neither read the book nor seen the movie.Stephanie Barrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17772217449161603561noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-43845930552779914342009-07-25T15:35:08.379-05:002009-07-25T15:35:08.379-05:00Good list. Here are a few of my favorites:
Some s...Good list. Here are a few of my favorites:<br /><br />Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe. <br />- Frank Zappa<br /><br />Wooden-headedness...plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.<br />- Barbara Tuchman<br /><br />Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. <br />- Jonathan Swift<br /><br />Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.<br />- John Milton<br /><br />A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exist in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points, of actions, cross-sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one: things in motion, motion in things and so the Chinese conception tends to represent them . . . But in nature there is no completeness . . . motion leaks everywhere like electricity from an exposed wire...<br />- Ernest Fenellosa<br /><br />Disorder! Disorder! I can't be blamed for all this damned disorder!<br />- Ezra Pound<br /><br />The dismaying thing about the classic totalitarian mind is that any given gear, though mutilated, will have at its circumference unbroken sequences of teeth that are immaculately maintained, that are exquisitely machined.<br /><br />Hence the cuckoo clock in Hell - keeping perfect time for eight minutes and thirty three seconds, jumping ahead fourteen minutes, keeping perfect time for two hours and one second, then jumping ahead a year.<br /><br />The missing teeth, of course, are simple, obvious truths, truths available and comprehensible even to ten year olds, in most cases. <br />- Kurt Vonnegut<br /><br />one tombstone for the mess, <br />I say: <br />humanity, you never had it <br />from the beginning<br />- Charles Bukowski<br /><br />The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.<br />- Ortega y Gasset<br /><br />I find it particularly ironic that the Bukowski sentiment is often quoted as "to begin with," which entirely misses the point of what he wrote.doctor Faustrollhttp://drfaustrollwritesthewrongs.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-63900348278293583212009-07-25T14:50:33.828-05:002009-07-25T14:50:33.828-05:00Me too. What Jeff said.
Good quotes. Really good....Me too. What Jeff said.<br /><br />Good quotes. Really good. I missed the quotes last Saturday when you were away.Relax Maxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01051381168322495999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8198390912401056862.post-73266580652554804992009-07-25T12:22:26.646-05:002009-07-25T12:22:26.646-05:00I think it is long enough, your point has been mad...I think it is long enough, your point has been made.<br />i would love to hear way you decided to make a blog, and what drives you in your every day life. what dreams fill your eyes when you think about the future... <br />thx<br />i would love to hear your thoughts on the half blood prince the movie, come to my blog and leave your opinion if you will..<br />http://authorsunion.blogspot.com/Jeff Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00667419764890599092noreply@blogger.com