Tentorium Quotes & Sayings

Winfree came from a family in which no one had gone to college. He got started, he would say, by not having proper education. His father, rising from the bottom of the life insurance business to the level of vice president, moved family almost yearly up and down the East Coast, and Winfree attended than a dozen schools before finishing high school. He developed a feeling that the interesting things in the world had to do with biology and mathematics and a companion feeling that no standard combination of the two subjects did justice to what was interesting. So he decided not to take a standard approach. He took a five-year course in engineering physics at Cornell University, learning applied mathematics and a full range of hands-on laboratory styles. Prepared to be hired into military-industrial complex, he got a doctorate in biology, striving to combine experiment with theory in new ways. — James Gleick

You will live to fail me many more times, I hope. — C.T. Phipps

The motorcycle is obviously a sexual symbol. It's what's called a phallic locomotor symbol. It's an extension of one's body, a power between one's legs.
-Dr. Bernard Diamond, University of California
criminologist, 1965 — Hunter S. Thompson

People are still disturbingly vague about the treatment of animals. People still seem to believe that meat is a particular substance not at all connected to animals playing in the field over there. People don't realise how gruesomely and fighteningly the animal gets to the plate ... — Morrissey

The first thing you do is teach the person to feel that the vision is very important and nearly impossible. That draws out the drive in the winner. — Edwin Land

I come from a long line of miserable people. — Arlene Schindler

It's not the person who is good or bad, it's the side we rub of them. — Udai Yadla

Vulgarity is not as destructive to an artist as snobbery. — Pauline Kael

Alas, the gates of life never swing open except upon death, never open except upon the palaces and
gardens of death. And the universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden ... What I
say today, and what I heard, exists and cries and howls beyond this garden, which is no more than a
symbol to me of the entire earth. — Octave Mirbeau

Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. — George Santayana

Innovations are the magnificent elevators of a transformational life. — Debasish Mridha

Plato and Hitler were both the same kind of consistent socialists who planned also for the production of future socialists, the breeding and education of future members of society. — Ludwig Von Mises