Wimsatt And Beardsley The Intentional Fallacy Quotes & Sayings

Where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people. — Indira Gandhi

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind. — Kristin Hersh

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me. — Marv Levy

If we were taught to cook as we are taught to walk, encouraged first to feel for pebbles with our toes, then to wobble forward and fall, then had our hands firmly tugged on so we would try again, we would learn that being good at it relies on something deeply rooted, akin to walking, to get good at which we need only guidance, senses, and a little faith. We aren't often taught to cook like that, so when we watch people cook naturally, in what looks like an agreement between cook and cooked, we think that they were born with an ability to simply know that an egg is done, that the fish needs flipping, and that the soup needs salt. Instinct, whether on the ground or in the kitchen, is not a destination but a path. — Tamar Adler

I come from a time when people like Bob Newhart and Bill Cosby told stories that were devastatingly funny without being off-color. — Bill Engvall

There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in. — George Bernard Shaw

Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. — William Shakespeare

Secret Stories, which advertised name-brand lingerie at discount prices, had nothing to worry about: the same kind of shops were doing fine in the malls of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. Neither, for that matter, did Chantal Thomass or La Perla. Hidden all day in impenetrable black burkas, rich Saudi women transformed themselves by night into birds of paradise with their corsets, their see-through bras, their G-strings with multicolored lace and rhinestones. They were exactly the opposite of Western women, who spent their days dressed up and looking sexy to maintain their social status, then collapsed in exhaustion once they got home, abandoning all hope of seduction in favor of clothes that were loose and shapeless. All — Michel Houellebecq

I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world. — David Foster Wallace

My two best friends are dead, which means they're great listeners now, but lousy as far as support goes. — Alex Adams

There was one thing I was never going to do
no way: preach at a crusade! — Franklin Graham

The Nanjing games are homework by Garry Kasparov and me, [ ... ] Today's game was provided by Garry. — Magnus Carlsen