Elegantan Konjski Quotes & Sayings

The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. — William Dean Howells

If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man. — J.B. Priestley

The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular. — Paul Strand

I don't want to give the terrorists any ideas, but if I really wanted to cripple a city with biological warfare, my WMD of choice would have to be the toddler. — Jim Gaffigan

A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is the scientific equivalent of: Have you read a work of Shakespeare's?
I now believe that if I had asked an even simpler question
such as, What do you mean by mass, or acceleration, which is the scientific equivalent of saying, Can you read?
not more than one in ten of the highly educated would have felt that I was speaking the same language. So the great edifice of modern physics goes up, and the majority of the cleverest people in the western world have about as much insight into it as their neolithic ancestors would have had. — C.P. Snow

He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness. — Lionel Shriver

Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions. — Brendan I. Koerner

The contemporary art world is what Tom Wolfe would call a "statusphere." It's structured around nebulous and often contradictory hierarchies of fame, credibility, imagined historical importance, institutional affliction, perceived intelligence, wealth, and attribution such as the size of one's art collection. — Sarah Thornton

But shall we wear these glories for a day?
Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them? — William Shakespeare

Aren't you going to insist that we pray, Gerry?' the Captain asked as he took a bite. 'This food doesn't deserve to be blessed,' the Doctor responded grimly, 'but if it makes you feel any better, I already prayed. — J Grace Pennington