Lanthorn Plumbing Quotes & Sayings

Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would leave the reader puzzled and cowed. He should then here and there smuggle in a few sensible, straightforward sentences all could understand. The reader would feel that since he has grasped this part, he must have also grasped the rest. He would then congratulate himself and praise the author. — Anthony De Jasay

It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it. — James Gandolfini

Potential is the one power you always have. — Ryan Blair

It is only after you have come to know the surface of things ... that you can venture to seek what is underneath. But the surface of things is inexhaustible. — Italo Calvino

If you can read, you can go anywhere. — Ruth Burke

Our mental models aren't reality. They are tools, like the models weather forecasters use to predict the weather. But, as we know all too well, sometimes the forecast says rain and, boom, the sun comes out. The tool is not reality. The key is knowing the difference. — Ed Catmull

I can't believe that women have got to put on so much in the morning. What time do women wake up? Man, I put a t-shirt and jeans on, and that's it. — Brandon T. Jackson

Make your heart the most beautiful home. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If you think you are in control, you're fooling yourself. As soon as you start listening, you realize you're not in control. And letting go will yield more and better results. — Charlene Li

It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied. — Nate Berkus

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. — Ivan Turgenev

Be a good listener ... It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard. — Wayne Dyer

Even when it stands vacant the past is never empty. — Ivan Doig