Are we to be confined to the language—the words—that the mass media professionals deliver to us? Is that the fate of the English language?
Palmer Coates, The Dark Afternoon of the Soul.
Electric power brought an end to humility. Just look at the nightsky of any city.
Rollo Marquardt, Dwelling in the Cupcake World.
“Too late” is an undervalued concept.
Travis Hilliard, The Private Language.
Discourse: Be wary of anyone—anyone—who uses this word.
Nicholas James Barnarby, ed., Dr. Sonderborg’s Book of DOs and DON’Ts.
Today, a word means what they say it means when they get around to saying that it means something.
Gunther Pinks, A Paranoid’s Pitiful Propositions.
Lie: truth that reclines.
W. Karl Bavinger, The Misanthrope’s Way With Words.
As science approaches a higher degree of resolution, the scientists begin to approach mediocrity. We may call this the Honus principle.
Spencer James Honus, Counting Our Spoons.
Some have plans for the future, but I have plans for the past:
1. That Europeans had never discovered the New World
2. That Europeans had never developed science and industrialism
3. That I (therefore) had never been born
Mills Verbruggen, The Isle of Dogs.
Vale of Tears: what our distractions distract us from.
Paul Uccello, Noli Me Tangere.
Concerning Rousseau, this much is clear: He was one of those people who seem to have no idea how ridiculous they are.
Maximilian Otto, Leonid Brezhnev: A Life.
