"Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds"

-- T. H. White

#War Quotes #Noble Quotes #Feuds Quotes

“My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.”
“I don't watch television. I know better than that.”
“I didn't mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it's turned into this 'It-girl' thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It's so weird.”
“[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.”
“Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.”

Source : "As One Mad with Wine and Other Similes" by Elyse Sommer, p. 207, 1991.
“A large number of people to begin crawling through those tunnels and caves looking for the bad folks.”
“The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."”
“I'd be dong something creative - something I could express my personality through. I enjoyed working as a gardener before music consumed more of my time. I would probably be still working as a gardener, perhaps, and I wouldn't mind doing odd jobs on the side that were creative, but I'm not sure what they'd be.”

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