Delbonis Quotes & Sayings

I need to figure out the secret. I need to work out how to keep things flying back to me instead of always flying away. — Carol Rifka Brunt

all sorts of considerations determine the truth conditions of a statement, and these go well beyond the scope of grammar. — Noam Chomsky

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars. — Tycho Brahe

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man — Arthur Schopenhauer

VASTY (As differentiated from "vast") Has approximately the same meaning as "biggy," "hugey," and "giganticky." Do not let anyone tell you these words are not words; all words are words. — Amy Leach

The real reason why human life can be so utterly exasperating and frustrating is not because there are facts called death, pain, fear, or hunger. The madness of the thing is that when such facts are present, we circle, buzz, writhe, and whirl, trying to get the "I" out of the experience. We pretend that we are amoebas, and try to protect ourselves from life by splitting in two. Sanity, wholeness, and integration lie in the realization that we are not divided, that man and his present experience are one, and that no separate "I" or mind can be found. — Alan W. Watts

When people become too intense, too serious, they will have trouble in relating to any sort of social game or norm. Perhaps this is why jokes are so important. On one hand they tell us about where the problems and grievances are, and, at the same time, they provide the means of enduring these grievances by laughing at the problems. — Marshall McLuhan

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive. — Havelock Ellis

[M]en will be free no longer then while they remain virtuous. — Samuel Adams