Bohlen Farms Quotes & Sayings

Among all the complaints you hear these days about the crimes of the media, it seems to me the critics miss the big one. It is that especially TV, but also we of the print press, tend to reduce mess and complexity and ambiguity to a simple story line that doesn't reflect reality so much as it distorts it ... What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movielike little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story. — Meg Greenfield

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

God, real people are so disappointing. I'm sure she would have done it better in the box-set version. — Sophie Kinsella

Good leaders reach solutions, and then stop. They do not dare to rely on force. — Laozi

I realize that, to many readers, Hard Fantasy may seem to be a contradiction in terms. Fantasy, according to most generally recognized definitions, differs from both 'real world' fiction and 'science fiction' in that magic or magical creatures are active elements. — Jane Lindskold

My gray zone is starting to include poetry here white is not absolute white black is not absolute black the edges of these non-colors adjoin — Tadeusz Rozewicz

You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly apart. — Paul Murray

It is never too late in life to practice yoga — B.K.S. Iyengar