Archives - October 2013

Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

I think that is what film and art and music do; they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Engineering is a great profession. There is the satisfaction of watching a figment of the imagination emerge through the aid of science to a plan on paper. Then it moves to realization in stone or metal or energy. Then it brings homes to men or women. Then it elevates the standard of living and adds to the comforts of life. This is the engineer's high privilege.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over. Why?

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river, and by this sea which is fresh.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

If someone asks why you're crying, you can just say, "Because of how wrong you are."

One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.

Music is for every single person that walks the planet.

We find comfort among those who agree with us --- growth among those who don't.

Players like rules. If they didn't have any rules, they wouldn't have anything to break.

Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.

Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts
Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts
Along the moonlit way.