"The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are necessary if we are to perceive logical connections and make judgments as to what is right and wrong."

-- James Montgomery Boice

#Thinking Quotes #Connections Quotes #Watches Quotes

“Yes, we could solve for why, but we could also eat another slice of coconut cake.”

Source : Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.128, Macmillan
“My approach to writing and recording now is pretty much the same as when I started. Except now I worry even less about what people will think of what I made. And I am not drunk.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I want nothing less than a faith founded upon a rock, faith in the constitution of things. The various man-made creeds are fictitious, like the constellations Orion, Cassiopeiaâ€™s Chair, the Big Dipper; the only thing real in them is the stars, and the only thing real in the creeds is the soulâ€™s aspiration toward the Infinite.”
“I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.”
“The world wants to be cheated. So cheat.”
“Physiognomy is often a great falsifier, though as a rule it is honest enough.”
“When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.”
“One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever watchful in them a knowledge of the menace of Jewry. For this reason alone it is vital that the Passion play be continued at Oberammergau; for never has the menace of Jewry been so convincingly portrayed as in this presentation of what happened in the times of the Romans. There one sees in Pontius Pilate a Roman racially and intellectually so superior, that he stands like a firm, clean rock in the middle of the whole muck and mire of Jewry.”

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