Langenberg Quotes & Sayings

In regard to the philosophers, if they be true philosophers, i.e., lovers of truth, they should not be irritated that the earth moves. Rather, if they realize that they have held a false belief, they should thank those have shown them the truth; and if their opinion stands firm that the earth doesn't move, they will have reason to boast than be angered. — Galileo Galilei

For a brief moment I thought that Stanley the Magical Squirrel had been alive up until only seconds before, when my father had chosen to give him some sort of bizarre colorectal exam gone horribly wrong. Then I realized that this was, more likely, a squirrel my father had found dead on the road, and that he had sliced it open and decided to use it as some sort of grotesque hand puppet culled from the very bowels of hell. Lisa — Jenny Lawson

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong. — Jeffrey R. Immelt

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this. — Edward Hirsch

The great march of metal destruction will go on. Everything will be denied. Everything will become a creed. It is the reasonable position to deny the stones in the street; it will be a religious dogma to assert them. It is a rational thesis that we are all in a dream; it will be a mystical sanity to say that we are all awake. — G.K. Chesterton

Microsoft is unlawfully taking advantage of its Windows monopoly to protect and to extend that monopoly and undermine consumer choice. — Janet Reno

I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing. — Erin McKeown

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance? — Anatole France

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all. — Mahesh Bhupathi