Towelling Bath Quotes & Sayings

History reveals no civilized people among whom there was not a highly educated class and large aggregations of wealth. Large profits mean large payrolls. — Calvin Coolidge

One percent of the population ruled - and they were all grafters - while the other ninety-nine percent live under the worst kind of feudalism. — David Halberstam

The only thing that words can do with any real precision or accuracy is hang together. Accuracy of description in language is not possible beyond a certain point: the most faithfully descriptive account of anything will always turn away from what it describes into its own self-contained grammatical fictions of subject and predicate and object. — Northrop Frye

The God's been walking through our halls again: Brothers have been having visions. What's Vartra been saying to you? — Lisanne Norman

People begin to resent the rich only when they conclude that the system is rigged. — Rupert Murdoch

People are spending way too much time thinking about climate change, way too little thinking about AI. — Peter Thiel

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home. — Eric Sevareid

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren. — L.M. Montgomery

Being and stability are regarded by our contemporaries as akin to death; they cannot live unless they act, fret, or distract themselves with this or that. Their spirit (provided we can still talk about a spirit in their case) feeds only on sensations and on dynamism, thus becoming the vehicle for the incarnation of darker forces. — Julius Evola

Each one of us has a duty to Allah and a role that befits him - and we must remember that He (the Exalted) alone is worthy to be served. — Abdul Malik Mujahid

At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext of freeing yourself, to be illogical and incoherent by getting rid of structure and simply piling a lot of notes one on top of the other. There's no beat anymore. You can't keep time with your foot. I believe that what is happening to jazz with people like Ornette Coleman, for instance, is bad. There's a new idea that consists in destroying everything and find what's shocking and unexpected; whereas jazz must first of all tell a story that anyone can understand. — Thelonious Monk

If we're going to the Silent City, you might want to get dressed. I mean, I appreciate the bra-and-panties look, but I don't know if the Silent Brothers will. There are only a few of the left, and I don't want them to die of excitement. — Cassandra Clare