Cranford Nix Quotes & Sayings

What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one should set fire to their synagogues ... Then that one should also break down and destroy their houses ... That one should drive them out the country. — Martin Luther

The morose one refuses to smile even when he has just had his teeth cleaned. — Mason Cooley

I believe gangsta rap, as such, in its foundation is simply anti-systemic and transgressive. — Bocafloja

Checked out the mirror to see if I looked older, or sadder, or wiser. I didn't; I just looked tired. — Nora Ephron

One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact. — Voltaire

The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we saw in our opening chapters, that even the most everyday things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be given. . . .

--From The Problems of Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1912). — Bertrand Russell

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed. — Robert Breault

There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching. — Patti LaBelle