Kurt Vonnegut
March 25, 2009
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“The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that nevercrossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at4 pm on some idle Tuesday.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
March 23, 2009
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The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. – Aldous Huxley, novelist (1894-1963)
Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
“Faith” is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see — / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency. – Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
T. H. White (1906-1964) English novelist, in “The Once and Future King” 1958
March 22, 2009
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“The best thing for being sad is to learn something. That’s the only thing that never
fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night
listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the
world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the
sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then— to learn. Learn why the
world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never
exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream
of regretting.”
— T. H. White (1906-1964) English novelist, in “The Once and Future King” 1958
William H. Sheldon
March 22, 2009
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“Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.” – William H. Sheldon
Lawrence Summers, an economic adviser to President Obama
March 22, 2009
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“There are a lot of terrible things that have happened in the last 18 months, but what’s happened at A.I.G. is the most outrageous.” – Lawrence Summers, an economic adviser to President Obama, on bonuses paid to A.I.G. executives after the government bailout.
William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
March 22, 2009
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And this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything. – William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
David Finckel, a cellist and co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
March 22, 2009
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“I’m already so jazzed. It’s the greatest new toy I’ve ever had.” – David Finckel, a cellist and co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, on the $159 million renovation of Alice Tully Hall.
Minna Thomas Antrim
March 22, 2009
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“Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.” – Minna Thomas Antrim
Christopher Hampton
March 22, 2009
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“No human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.” – Christopher Hampton
