Buchsteiner Shaker Quotes & Sayings

We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts round about, and to deify them, as it were, to provide images that relate the everyday to the eternal. — Joseph Campbell

Before any modern man talks with authority about loving men, I insist (I insist with violence) that he shall always be very much pleased when his barber tries to talk to him. His barber is humanity: let him love that. If he is not pleased at this, I will not accept any substitute in the way of interest in the Congo or the future of Japan. If a man cannot love his barber whom he has seen, how shall he love the Japanese whom he has not seen? It — G.K. Chesterton

...none live less the spark — Kurt Brindley

We are lying to ourselves and to each other.
Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying.
I am a bad person.
I don't care. I don't care what you are. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Everyone gets what they want most," Marquis mused. "I can't think of anything more terrifying. — Wildbow

I find folding laundry very relaxing. — Lindsey Vonn

No one showed him how to live in his clothes, how and elbow needs to worry its way through a sweater like the nub of a spring bulb, poking finally, through the rank, wet earth. — Julie Bruck

If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me. — John C. Reilly

What both the left and the right overlook is our Founders' wisdom about the limits and dangers of government. — Ed Crane

Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas

I think if you try to tailor your act to anybody, you end up with an act that doesn't work anyway. — Colin Quinn

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.' — A. P. Martinich

On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie. Those of you who have thought to yourselves, 'That guy talks like he has marbles in his mouth,' should know that they are not marbles, but oatmeal cookies. — Lester Holt