Laganon Quotes & Sayings

One concept the non-old have trouble getting their minds around is the difference between taste and judgment. It's fine not to like almost anything, except maybe Al Green. That's taste, yours to do with as you please, critical deployment included. By comparison, judgment requires serious psychological calisthenics. But the fact that objectivity only comes naturally in math doesn't mean it can't be approximated in art.
— Robert Christgau

Being asked for one's advice is always flattering — Valerie Fitzgerald

Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well. — George R R Martin

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes. — Os Guinness

It is perhaps a sign of the strength of our republic that so few people feel the need to participate. That must be the reason. — Jon Stewart

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible. — Angela Y. Davis

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly. — Anna Held

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. — Gertrude Stein

The logic of science was infallible, and if the scientists were sometimes mistaken, this was assumed to be only from their mistaking its rules. — Robert M. Pirsig

The threats that resurfaced in the past 10 years were not an aberration. Al Qaeda and terrorism or one such threat, but it was actually not the most serious threat that the United States faced. The president can and should speak of foreseeing an era in which these threats don't exist, but you must not believe his own rhetoric. To the contrary, he must gradually ease the country away from the idea that threats to imperial power will ever subside, then l lead it to an understanding that these threats are the price Americans pay for the wealth and power they hold. — George Friedman