Zilinsky Erb Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes smart people can be a special kind of stupid. The kind where they know so many facts and are so good at saying "no one would ever do that" that they somehow manage to convince themselves the world is going to care about what they think. — Mira Grant

I want to have all that scientific information that we're building be used in designing the future so that people who make geographic decisions - and here it's not just land-use planners, but it's everyone: foresters, transportation engineers, people who buy a house - can analyze all of these information layers and design a future. — Jack Dangermond

I receive the reward for my willingness to participate in the object-subject reversal in the form of a private illumination - in the present case, as an aesthetic movedness. The torso, which has no place that does not see me, likewise does not impose itself - it exposes itself. It exposes itself by testing whether I will recognize it as a seer. Acknowledging it as a seer essentially means 'believing' in it, where believing, as noted above, refers to the inner operations that are necessary to conceive of the vital principle in the stone as a sender of discrete addressed energies. If I somehow succeed in this, I am also able to take the glow of subjectivity away from the stone. I tentatively accept the way it stands there in exemplary radiance, and receive the starlike eruption of its surplus of authority and soul. — Peter Sloterdijk

As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. — George Washington

In the midst of life, we are in death. — Fred Chappell

On every commercial flight, the traveler is told, "Your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device". The question is, why doesn't the plane just become a boat? — Sam Ewing

She was a cute as a washtub. — Raymond Chandler

You got a God. Don't make no difference if you don' know what he looks like. — John Steinbeck

I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly. — Joan Didion

One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication. — Georges Simenon

Her only comfort was to curse each searing day with a creative lexicon she didn't know she possessed. — Bentley Little