Jtable Swing Quotes & Sayings

I usually disliked whatever was being played on a music store's speakers. It spoiled the pleasure of thinking about other music. Record shops, I felt, should be silent spaces; there, more than anywhere else, the mind needed to be clear. — Teju Cole

Throughout history, independent minds have carried mankind forward. Whether they identified how to make fire or manufacture tools, develop rational philosophy or create man-glorifying art, pioneer scientific knowledge or invent the electric light, independent thinkers have created the goods on which human life and prosperity depend. — Andrew Bernstein

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must ask ourselves, Is our thinking on autopilot? Is that autopilot programmed to make ethical decisions? — Linda Fisher Thornton

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action. — Henry Chester

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul ... — Solomon

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new. — Mao Zedong

Toast is bread made delicious and useful. Un-toasted bread is okay for children's sandwiches and sopping up barbecue sauce, but for pretty much all other uses, toast is better than bread. An exception is when the bread is fresh from the oven, piping hot, with butter melting all over it. Then it's fantastic, but I would argue that bread fresh out of the oven is a kind of toast. Because I'm an asshole and I refuse to be wrong about something. — Steve Albini

This is all that "ordinary" in the phrase "ordinary language philosophy" means, or ought to mean. It does not refer to particular words of wide use, nor to particular sorts of men. It reminds us that whatever words are said and meant are said and meant by particular men, and that to understand what they (the words) mean you must understand what they (whoever is using them) means, and that sometimes men, do not see what they mean, that usually they cannot say what they mean, that for various reasons they may not know what they mean, and that when they are forced to recognize this they feel they do not, and perhaps cannot, mean anything, and they are struck dumb. — Stanley Cavell