"People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it."

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Source : "Song: "Snowman" ("English Settlement")". February 12, 1982.

Andy Partridge

#Feet Quotes #People Quotes #Wipe Quotes

“The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.”
“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press
“In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.”
“In most of the world, breakfast is an important meal.”
“No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.”
“We are afraid of the known and afraid of the unknown. That is our daily life and in that there is no hope, and therefore every form of philosophy, every form of theological concept, is merely an escape from the actual reality of what is. All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.”
“I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.”
“America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.”

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