Nonelectronic Quotes & Sayings

The poets are a harmless little folk, with their dreams and raptures and heaven full of Greek gods that they carry about with them in their fantasy. But they become wicked as soon as they presume to hold their ideal up to reality and then flail the latter angrily, when they should have nothing at all to do with it. They would, nevertheless, remain harmless if they were only granted their free little place in reality un disturbed and not compelled through crowding and pressure to cast a backward glance at it, for it reaches beyond the clouds, and they themselves cannot survey it all and must cling to the stars as provisory border points, of which, however, who knows how many are yet today invisible, their light still in the process of journeying down to us. — Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann

Matching sounds in your head is made a lot easier with all the technology. It is the nonelectronic noises that are challenging, as you have to find ways of communicating those to the people you're working with. — Scott Walker

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free. — Ralph Marston

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time. — David Eagleman

Whoever says The Smiths have split shall be severely spanked by me with a wet plimsoll. — Morrissey

It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you? — Sylvia Engdahl

First, I charge a retainer; then I charge a reminder; next I charge a refresher; and then I charge a finisher. — Judah P. Benjamin