"English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights."

-- John H. McWhorter

#Lonely Quotes #Night Quotes #Dressing Up Quotes

“There is no method but to be very intelligent.”
“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”
“Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.”
“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”
“I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.”
“I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.”
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.”

Source : "Wonder and Skepticism". The Skeptical Inquirer 19 (1), www.csicop.org. January/February 1995.
“Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.”

Source : Cecilia bk. 4, ch. 2 (1782)

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