Deafer Than A Haddock Quotes & Sayings

Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead? — John Updike

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I'd rather not talk about it, because I didn't understand it. — Roberto Bolano

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions. — Horace Bushnell

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol. — Bobby Darin

If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that no mathematician of any age or country has ever surpassed Gauss in the combination of an abundant fertility of invention with an absolute vigorousness in demonstration ... — Henry John Stephen Smith

You're too small to be told everything. — Tove Jansson

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned. — Stephen Fry

I'm still unsure as to what draws people together, that is, beyond the really ugly things: money, beauty, family, desperation. But I suppose that if someone can make you feel like you are seeing a new world, or just an old one of the first time, you might decide that you love to be around them. — Dana Vachon

Lawns are a form of television — Michael Pollan