The Hofstadter Insufficiency Quotes & Sayings

Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. — Barack Obama

Some realities are too onerous to be borne by nations, let alone by children. — Gregory Maguire

There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States. — Malcolm X

The Son of Man goes forth to war, A golden crown to gain; His blood-red banner streams afar - Who follows in his train? I — Rudyard Kipling

Most Arabs and Muslims feel that the United States hasn't really been paying much attention to their desires. They think it has been pursuing its policies for its own sake and not according to many of the principles that it claims are its own - democracy, self-determination, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, international law. — Edward Said

Make your own decision, based on your deepest intuitive wisdom and knowledge. You may make the right decision or the wrong one, but whatever happens, it is your best shot, and you will strengthen your capacity for future action. — David Deida

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely. — Rene Dubos

Twenty-two pages is not a lot of space. Believe me. Having written a bazillion comics, I still find myself more often than nine pages into a script and realizing to my horror that I'm only about a quarter of the way through the story I wanted to tell, and the next thing you know, I'm making fresh coffee and tearing up the floorboards to rewrite. — Mark Waid

Merleau-Ponty's painting inhabits the same rhetoric as early cinema: it makes the invisible visible, or rather it makes visibility visible; it forms from the thresholds of the visible and invisible world, an order, mode, or aesthetic of visuality. Not only of the small or fast, but of visibility as such. The visuality of the visible and the invisible is found in the mixture of the body and its world, of your body and your world, all your worlds, all your bodies in this world and all those others. Painting is the process by which the visuality of the visible and invisible is made manifest: "Painting mixes up all our categories in laying out its oneiric universe of carnal essences, of effective likenesses, of mute meanings." Each painting is a universal archive, a picture of the universe, a universal image - and like a dream. — Akira Mizuta Lippit

One finds oneself saying: 'I know the right question, but ... this is not exactly the right time to ask it.' — Dan Rather

I don't want to be 50 years old and not know what's going on with my kids and my grandkids. — Torrey Smith

I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic. — Brian Michael Bendis