Jackpots Hit Quotes & Sayings

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese. — Benjamin De Casseres

Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul [Minnesota] in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language. — Bob Dylan

Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on. — Allen Ginsberg

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church. — Henry David Thoreau

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. — Confucius

The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned — Antonio Gramsci

I try to remember what I have too often forgotten to my peril: as far as teaching goes, when all you are is right, what you really are is in trouble. — Garret Keizer

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it. — Michael Polanyi

There were dark deeds and bad seeds, but who cared if the house was falling apart as long as it was pretty, right? — Penelope Douglas

This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga. — James Berardinelli

THE FIRST PRINCIPLE OF GASTRONOMY
There's a rule for proper doses
in the dinner-eaters lore:
one should stop the filling process
while one still has room for more.
And if someone at the table
had reminded me before -
Hallelujah! I'd be able
to absorb a little more. — Piet Hein