John Sterling
John Sterling
near sharks swimming uncommon
It's not uncommon that sharks are all over the place and we're swimming right near them and we don't even know.
advance book break good great hearing word
Doctorows book is possible, ... Im hearing very good advance word on that one. It would be great to see something break through.
allow books books-and-reading difficult media provide reporters situation
The situation is so complex, and books allow reporters and analysts and participants to go deeper, to provide an edification that's difficult for other media to do.
self intuition natural-instinct
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
emotional leading-on elements
Emotion turning back on itself, and not leading on to thought or action, is the element of madness.
beautiful sacrifice reality
Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
fighting men law
Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.
flower past clothes
Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.
lakes water speech
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.
beautiful thinking honor
I could honor Carmen Electra. I think she's beautiful.
laughter self tears
Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.
education cutting modern
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.
dream thinking toil
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
self denial worst
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.