Schwettmann Quotes & Sayings

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own culture. In Yeats' phrase, "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." Intense emotional attachment to any value, any virtue, any set of "shoulds" is a disease, a mental illness, a condition of self-murder and cultural assassination. — Brad Blanton

The doo-wop stalker love song on a Cincinnati oldies station
you broke up with me because I was an obnoxious jerk and now you're dating him, so I drive by your house and stare in your window every night, thereby proving that I'm an even bigger creep than you thought — Sarah Vowell

Solidarity is an attitude of resistance, I suppose, or it should be. — Christopher Hitchens

Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought. — Ronnie Dunn

A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that's gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change. — Mark Lawrence

Many men beg for a job but have no clue what hard work really means. — Bill Courtney

Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it. — Ernst Haas

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. — David Hume

The King did what all wise husbands do. He did as he was told. — Toby Forward

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. — Ursula K. Le Guin

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson. — Ben Van Berkel

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners. — Amy Heckerling

Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on it. — Immanuel Kant

Boredom, as her mother had always told them, was a state to be pitied, the province of the witless. — Kate Morton