Ihnatko Quotes & Sayings

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer. — Dave Morris

But I still have him in the form of the finest and highest standard of what it means to be a journalist and critic. All my life, Roger Ebert has always been the bar I've tried to reach. I never will. But his example has made me stronger through failure. — Andy Ihnatko

What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing people were writing or talking about had any real interest for me. Only the object haunted me, the separate, detached, insignificant thing. It might be a part of the human body or a staircase in a vaudeville house; it might be a smokestack or a button I had found in the gutter. Whatever it was it enabled me to open up, to surrender, to attach my signature. To the life about me, to the people who made up the world I knew, I could not attach my signature. I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a perverse love of the thing-in-itself - not a philosophic attachment, but a passionate, desperately passionate hunger, as if in this discarded, worthless thing which everyone ignored there was contained the secret of my own regeneration. — Henry Miller

Law is the great civilizing machinery. It liberates the desire to build and subdues the desire to destroy. — Lyndon B. Johnson

DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed. — K. Howard Joslin

Third, we could, while denouncing them both as illegal, have acquiesced in them both and thus remained neutral with both sides, although not agreeing with either as to the righteousness of their respective orders. — George William Norris

Divide and conquer. That's the global elite's proven strategy when it comes to its treatment of Third World countries in Africa and indeed throughout the world. Or, to put it another way, order out of chaos is the global elite's favored tactic. They engineer chaos by financing both sides of revolutions, movements and civil wars then create order by providing solutions to governments and citizens in these war-torn countries. — James Morcan

Microsoft doesn't have to make back the purchase price. They have to make something of Skype, not from Skype. If they fail to grow as a company, I'm going to conclude that Microsoft has officially and deliberately taken themselves off the list of "A list innovators." — Andy Ihnatko

When all hope is lost, pig-headed refusal to acknowledge reality will always save the day. — Andy Ihnatko

Teach them [your children] in such a way that they could not misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ. — Gordon B. Hinckley

You are your own soul mate, so love and treat yourself in the same way you would your life partner. — Miya Yamanouchi

The people are forbidden to give aid and comfort to rebels. What of a government that has the power to cut off from aid and comfort all the rebels of the South and fails to exercise it? — Robert Dale Owen

Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. — Soren Kierkegaard

Writing is hard. That's why so few people stick to it and actually finish things. And why you have a right to be immensely proud when you finish something.
[There Is No Such Thing as Writers' Block: Blog post, October 7, 2001] — Andy Ihnatko

The universe always favors those who fight for what they want. — Paulo Coelho

Faith marches at the head of the army of progress. -It is found beside the most refined life, the freest government, the profoundest philosophy, the noblest poetry, the purest humanity. — Theodore T. Munger

Flirtation: attention without intention. — Max O'Rell

Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors. — Philip Kotler

I wish I were less awkward around strangers. I never know what to say when someone asks me who I am and what the hell I'm doing in their house. — Andy Ihnatko

To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done. — Andy Ihnatko

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt