Learned Lumber Quotes & Sayings

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us. — Charles Darwin

The Sabbath rest of God is the acknowledgment that God and God's people in the world are not commodities to be dispatched for endless production and so dispatched, as we used to say, as "hands" in the service of a command economy. Rather they are subjects situated in an economy of neighborliness. All of that is implicit in the reality and exhibit of divine rest. — Walter Brueggemann

No, I just wanted to be your fantasy and not some stranger. — Ella Frank

The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some 50 years ago by the exact sciences, is now once more dug up by pseudo scientists from the lumber room of human fallacies, and like a trollop, newly attired in elegant dress and make-up, is smuggled into respectable company, to which she does not belong. — Hermann Kolbe

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive. — Roberto Calasso

You have made no secret of the fact that you hate me."
His eyes soften again. "Hate you?" he asks. "Not as much as you might think. And then there is the ... what was it ... butterflies? That can't be a bad thing, can it? — Amy A. Bartol

From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism. — Grant Morrison

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity. — Mesut Ozil

If something is meant to happen, it will," he pointed out calmly. "And no cat's will is strong enough to stop it from happening. — Erin Hunter

Scientists believe that the universe is made of hydrogen because they claim it's the most plentiful ingredient. I claim that the most plentiful ingredient is stupidity. — Frank Zappa

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it. — Charles Caleb Colton

I realized that my father's absence is our slippers. In order to start to get rid of your slippers, you have to admit they are yours, and if you do, then they will get rid of themselves. — Abraham Verghese

You might as well live — Elizabeth Taylor

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. — Alexander Pope

I don't just talk to the dead. — Sylvia Browne