Quotes for the day 8-24
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 1:07 pm
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
-- Bob Edwards
A cult is a religion with no political power.
-- Tom Wolfe
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
-- Leonard Bernstein
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
From Stephen
-- Bob Edwards
A cult is a religion with no political power.
-- Tom Wolfe
Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
-- Leonard Bernstein
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
-- Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
From Stephen