Lettie Brown Quotes & Sayings

The gospel of St. Marx is just the old Judaeo-Christian mythology with the supernatural sanctions left out — Revilo P. Oliver

I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor. To describe it takes many hundreds of thousands of words. Our muck is only a part of a much greater muck
the nation-state
which is itself the creation of that muck of mucks, human consciousness. Of course all these things also have a touch of sublimity
as when Moonbelly sings, for example, or all the lights go out. What a happy time that was, when all the electricity went away! If only we could re-create that paradise! By, for instance, all forgetting to pay our electric bills at the same time. All nine million of us. Then we'd all get those little notices that say unless we remit within five days the lights will go out. We all stand up from our chairs with the notice in ours hands. The same thought drifts across the furrowed surface of nine million minds. We wink at each other, through the walls. — Donald Barthelme

Take notes. Everything is copy. — Nora Ephron

The evolutionists worship atheism. I mean, that's their religion. — Pat Robertson

I could not think without writing. — Jean Piaget

If you want to succeed, you must make your own opportunities as you go. — John Bartholomew Gough

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is [exists]. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is ... There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain. — Ian Stewart

It must be possible to solve the task of controlling nature and yet simultaneously create a new freedom. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

There was a single thought in my head: Keep thinking. Thinking would keep me alive. But now I am alive, and thinking is killing me. I think and think and
think. — Jonathan Safran Foer

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone. — Henry A. Kissinger

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud. — Stanislaw Lem

He's been breaking Olympic records like ninepins — Des Lynam

The fact is that there is a serious problem of extremism with minority groups within Muslim communities. — Maajid Nawaz

You will find that I will only truly have left this school when none here are loyal to me. — J.K. Rowling