Twiddles Quotes & Sayings

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself ... Anybody can have ideas
the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. — Mark Twain

If the European grows accustomed not to rule, a generation and a half will be sufficient to bring the old continent, and the whole world along with it, into mortal inertia, intellectual sterility, universal barbarism. It is only the illusion of rule, and the discipline of responsibility which it entails, that can keep Western minds in tension. Science, art, technique, and all the rest live on the tonic atmosphere created by the consciousness of authority. If this is lacking, the European will gradually become degraded. Minds will no longer have the radical faith in themselves which impels them, energetic, daring, tenacious, towards the capture of great new ideas in every order of life. The European will inevitably become a day-to-day man. Incapable of creative, specialized effort, he will always be falling back on yesterday, on custom, on routine. He will turn into a commonplace, conventional, empty creature, like the Greeks of the decadence and those of the Byzantine epoch. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred; ... — Bernard Bailyn

In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture. — Henri Bergson

I'm a kind of private guy. — Jason Reitman

Wanting to be true to yourself ... Is just an act of self-satisfaction. — Aya Kanno

They are the chosen ones
who have surrendered ...
Once they were particles of light
now they are the radiant sun! — Rumi

Silence upon silence, with a heaping pile of extra silence. — M.A. George

The world is a coward ... It does not change before your face; it waits until your back is turned, and pounces ... — Robert Jackson Bennett

As long as we have a youth that stands for all that is strong and manly our future is assured. — Ernst Junger

I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance. — Bob Black

Design is expected to provide something "new" or "beautiful" or "special". When we look at the things around us with such a mindset, those things outside "design" are viewed as being "normal" or "ugly" in contrast. — Naoto Fukasawa

Until we resolve to stand up & walk, we won't find people to show us directions ... I am confident that 125 crore Indians are capable to walk and will keep walking always. — Narendra Modi

The Psalms are the steady, sustained subcurrent of healthy Christian living. They shaped the praying and vocation even of Jesus himself. They can and will do the same for us. The Psalms do this, to begin with, simply because they are poetry set to music: a classic double art form. To write or read a poem is already to enter into a different kind of thought world from our normal patterns. A poem is not merely ordinary thought with a few turns and twiddles added on to make it pretty or memorable. A poem (a good poem, at least) uses its poetic form to probe deeper into human experience than ordinary speech or writing is usually able to do, to pull back a veil and allow the hearer or reader to sense other dimensions. Sometimes — N. T. Wright