Pediamecum Quotes & Sayings

The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga. — Frederick Lenz

Yet man does recognise himself [as an animal]. But I ask you and the whole world for a generic differentia between man and ape which conforms to the principles of natural history, I certainly know of none ... If I were to call man ape or vice versa, I should bring down all the theologians on my head. But perhaps I should still do it according to the rules of science. — Carl Linnaeus

Tis not jealousy when a man guards what is his. — Regan Walker

We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again. — James Webb Young

I used to use a lot of words in the paintings but stopped because it created a narrative - or an answer to a question. — Danny Fox

I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job. — Carl Lewis

Although we have our compendia of flora, fauna, birds, reptiles and insects, we lack a Terra Britannica, as it were: a gathering of terms for the land and its specificities — Robert Macfarlane