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thinking humanity humans
Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are. Kurt Vonnegut
teacher editors long
There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.
thinking people trouble
I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.
thinking sight two
They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons.
thinking roman-numerals numbers
Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.
thinking hocus-pocus heard
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
tragedy changed audience
This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience.
thinking usual storytelling
It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.
truth quality flow
. . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth.
travel climbing dancing
Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
teacher children pride
But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.
tired writing people
Somebody gets into trouble, then gets out of it again. People love that story. They never get tired of it.
thinking turkeys environmental
Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.
truth children pride
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.
tattoo beautiful hurt
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
two trout purpose
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.
taken vegetables patents
I've just been told that Nestle has taken out patents on the making of pullao. (Pullao is the way we make our rice in India, with either vegetables or meat or whatever.) Before you know it, every common use of plants will be patented by a Western corporation. Vandana Shiva
two water earth
Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.
two mad female
Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad. William Shakespeare
time long weight
The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.
tattoo fitness zebras
Though she be but little, she is fierce!
truth honesty memorable
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning.
truth honesty chance
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
teaching done twenties
It is far easier for me to teach twenty what were right to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
thinking heaven compare
And yet by heaven I think my love as rare / as any that she belie with false compare Sonnett CXXX, ll, 13-14
two one-day lions
Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.
time heart eye
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.
thinking space sea
We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins. Arthur C. Clarke
truth
words can never get at the truth. Katherine Anne Porter
together unbreakable-bonds way
I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways ...
trouble fury uninvited
we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.
two trying energy
Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.
thinking artist praying
Even St. Teresa said, "I can pray better when I'm comfortable," and she refused to wear her haircloth shirt or starve herself. I don't think living in cellars and starving is better for an artist than it is for anybody else.