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“My teacher has a reading problem. He can't read my writing”
Source : Leopold Fechtner “Encyclopedia of Ad-Libs, Crazy Jokes, Insults and Wisecracks”
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“Throw caution to the wind and just do it.”
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“The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible.”
Source : "Dirac: A Scientific Biography". Book by Helge Kragh, p. 258, 1990.
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“Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.”
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“The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.”
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“Set your guitars and banjos on fire and before you write a song smoke a pack of whiskey and it'll all take care of itself.”
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“And ... and what is civilisation if it isn't people talking to each other over a goddamned beer?”
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“Wrongs have to be redressed by reason, not by force.”
Source : T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.205, Penguin
