Bavardages Incessants Quotes & Sayings

My father revisited Moby a lot. Maybe it's because there's no other novel in the whole world that better captures the Impossible Standard. — Niall Williams

Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought — Albert Einstein

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change. — Max Muller

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1. — Dar Williams

Along with the concept of American Dream runs the notion that every man and woman is entitled to an opinion and to one vote, no matter how ridiculous that opinion might be or how uninformed the vote. It could be that the Borderer Presbyterian tradition of "stand up and say your rightful piece" contributed to the American notion that our gut-level but uninformed opinions are some sort of unvarnished foundational political truths. I have been told that this is because we redneck working-class Scots Irish suffer from what psychiatrists call "no insight". Consequently, we will never agree with anyone outside our zone of ignorance because our belligerent Borderer pride insists on the right to be dangerously wrong about everything while telling those who are more educated to "bite my ass! — Joe Bageant

Oh the wonders of being married. Put a gun in one hand and a woman in the other, I'm never sure who's going to kill me first. — Michael W. Grimard

Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are. — Earl Weaver

Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name. — Woodrow Wilson