Armchair Intellectuals Quotes & Sayings

O.K., so I'm not so smart. I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running, and it's the working class that gets exploited. What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people can't understand? What the hell kind of social revolution is that? I mean, I'd like to make the world a better place, too. If somebody's really being exploited, we've got to put a stop to it. That's what I believe, and that's why I ask questions. — Haruki Murakami

If you disaggregate, things fall apart. — Tony Snow

Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift. — Tom Odell

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day. — Ernest Hemingway,

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God. — G.I. Gurdjieff

We can never be like it was at Penn State with Joe Paterno. That was an anomaly in an of itself. — James Brown

The challenge is to keep up with all the new poets at the same time I love the old ones. — Mary Oliver

All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it. — Neil Young

The Church in contemporary America does not need more strategies, steps, or keys to the Christian life. The Church needs truth, and more specifically, the great foundational truths of historical Christianity. — Charles Leiter

I'm a conversationalist. I came out of a town with only 300 people. I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't want to talk about farming. So when I came out in the world, I started talking. Never stopped. — Jim "Dandy" Mangrum

For ages men had used sticks to club and spear each other - Anaximander of Miletus used the stick to measure time. — Carl Sagan