Archimedean Academy Quotes & Sayings

I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house. — Psy

Americans today spend less on food, as a percentage of disposable income (10%), than any other industrialized nation... meaning that we could afford to spend more on food if we chose to. — Michael Pollan

You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years. — C.S. Lewis

Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. — Henry Fuseli

Secret 3963. It's only a sucking chest wound if you're not the shooter. — The Covert Comic

Make your habits your beloved home. — Debasish Mridha

Dream As a Human and Feel Free or Fly Like a Bird — Jan Jansen

I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness. — John Kenneth Galbraith

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. — Sri Aurobindo

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too? — Emily Dickinson

Gliding across an imaginary line that splits the Pacific Ocean from the north to the south polar caps, the sunrise acquired a new label, June 23. Behind that line, June 22 had just dawned. This murky international convention, amid world chaos, still stood. For the globe still turned as always in the light of the sun, ninety million miles away in black space, and the tiny dwellers on the globe still had to agree, as they went about their mutual butcheries, on a way to tell the time. — Herman Wouk