Wilczewski Brothers Quotes & Sayings

How can I survive without a book to read? — David Hill

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable. — Andrew Solomon

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language. — Daniel Dennett

The kingdom of God is a glorious and gigantic party! — Tony Campolo

There's nothing but spirit in music. That's all it is. Yeah, there's a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, it's all spirit. — Amos Lee

Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, "Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?" Antagoras replied, "Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers? — Plutarch

As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised more severely for throwing tantrums or showing temper: "high spirits" are expected and therefore tolerated in little boys; docility and resignation are the corresponding traits expected of little girls. Now, we tend to excuse a show of temper by a man where we would not excuse an identical tirade from a woman: women are allowed to fuss and complain, but only a man can bellow in rage. — Robin Lakoff

A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time. — Martin Luther King Jr.

A lot crystallized in Phil's mind that day about how people lie. If the facts are not their ally, people have to say something that convinces you, and the best thing they can say is something that's true or irrefutable. — Philip Houston

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism. — Robert D. Kaplan

There are checks and balances in science. There's somebody checking the people doing the science, and then there's somebody who checks the checkers and somebody who checks the checker's checkers. — Michael Shermer

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. — James A. Michener