Jewson Builders Quotes & Sayings

It is a laborious madness and an impoverishing one, the madness of composing vast books - setting out in five hundred pages an idea that can be perfectly related orally in five minutes. The better way to go about it is to pretend that those books already exist, and offer a summary, a commentary on them. (From the Introduction of 1941's The Garden of Forking Paths) — Jorge Luis Borges

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been. — Mark Morris

Yeah, some of my college friends and I have been tinkering around for years, you know, just for fun. — Eric Roberts

The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all. — Freeman Dyson

almost every scholar who has grappled with the question of what reading does to one's habits of mind has concluded that the process encourages rationality; that the sequential, propositional character of the written word fosters what Walter Ong calls the "analytic management of knowledge. — Neil Postman

Someone named Gold has never won gold, I'm told. — Gracie Gold

And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation. — Kathy Acker

There's an assumption by many partners that no matter what happens to their business, they'll be partners forever. — David Gene Gibbs

I was too scared to ask if I had reason to be scared. — John Green