Prince Poppycock Quotes & Sayings

not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam. — Peter Kreeft

The stupid thing I incorrectly believed for a long time is that I believed for a long time that some politicians could sometimes tell the truth. — David Crosby

We can change our whole life and attitude of the people around us simply by changing ourselves.. — Rudolf Dreikurs

History is scholarship. It is also art, and it is literature. — Stephen J. Pyne

Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners — Laurence Sterne

I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off. — Mark Haddon

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls. — Warren G. Bennis

One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting. — Sidney Nolan

In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art
when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant
is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks. — John Gardner