Olbrechts Tyteca Quotes & Sayings

The last condescended from Academy spires Pretended at life with a cold, dead heart Face like a crypt, from a family of liars Quietly, quietly played . . . her . . . part. - Children's nursery rhyme — K.D. Castner

a good heart is, I believe, much more desirable than education or brains. — L. Frank Baum

Whenever you face a man who's playing your instrument, there's a competition. — Wynton Marsalis

But, then again, the actions of the most insignificant men or women can be as a single raindrop that rolls a pebble that dislodges a clod that tumbles a rock and, before you know it, the whole mountainside has crashed down, sweeping palaces and pigsties, princes and paupers into the sea. So maybe there are demons at work, even in the smallest mischief — Karen Maitland

CRUSHER: [NOUN] SOMEONE WHO SURFS HARD, AS IF THEY HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE AND NO FEAR INSIDE — Alessandra Torre

There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook. — Norman Douglas

I will risk everything to avoid being bored. — Porfirio Rubirosa

An inflated balloon
impressive to look at but hollow at the core and easily punctured. — Dianne Feinstein

The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan... He was one of Eichmann's best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz.7 — David Rubin

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps. — Frederick Law Olmsted

I have always told anyone who would listen that I was available for more public service. — Shirley Temple