Etanska Quotes & Sayings

I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive. I am haunted by the density of reality and try to capture this with (in Clifford Geertz's phrase) thick description. — Oliver Sacks

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them. — Kin Hubbard

Liberal Catholics are the worst enemies of the Church. — Pope Pius IX

Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know! — Manly Hall

in scuba diving, going down and staying down are not the difficult bits, (a brick can do that.) Coming up again is the part that requires skill. — Simon Pridmore

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound. — Erica Jong

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film ... at least in Hollywood studio films. — Richard LaGravenese

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel? — Sarah McLachlan

I can't explain why a bride buys her wedding dress, whereas a groom rents his tux. — Lou Holtz

He's a doctor," Timur says. "Ah? It must be shocking for you, then. This hospital. — Khaled Hosseini

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. — Joseph P. Farrell

Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested. — Helen Clark