Deric Mccabe Quotes & Sayings

Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities, and the reason is tenure. When the time comes to grant it nowadays, the radicals get screened out. That's its principal function. It's a very good system, really - keeps academic life at a decent level of tranquility. — John Kenneth Galbraith

It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances. — Daphne Merkin

all gods is one when it comes to thanks, so I've heard, and 'tis a good enough saying. — Stephen King

Why am I holding on to this stuff? Some of this junk is losing its punch. Pictures. Pieces of paper with writing on them - I can no longer connect with the thoughts or feelings that birthed them, that drove me in that panicky desperate moment to scribble in a barely legible scrawl as if on a cave wall. All say the same thing in some form or another: "I am here. This is me in this moment." Do I have some fantasy that this stuff will be important after I die? Do I think that scholars will be thrilled that I left such a disorganized treasure trove of creative evidence of me? Will the archives be fought over by college libraries? What will probably happen is my brother will come out with my mother and look in the boxes. My mother will hold up a VHS or a cassette and say to my brother, "Do I have a machine that plays these?" My brother will shake his head no and they will throw it all away. — Marc Maron

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. — Gordon W. Allport

I'm actually incapable of lying. I'm like a parody of a person who can't lie. — Busy Philipps

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him. — Matt Ridley

Life is precious. Life is sacred. And it ought so to be observed. — Gordon B. Hinckley