“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
- Sylvia Plath
Quotes
Congress Is So Strange
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens — and then everybody disagrees.
— Russian actor Boris Marshalov, after visiting the House of Representatives
New On The Blinking Line Journal: "So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things…"
“So if you now number yourself among the disenchanted, then you have no choice but to accept things as they are, or to seriously seek something else. But beware of looking for goals: look for a way of life. Decide how you want to live and then see what you can do to make a living WITHIN that way of life.”
- Hunter S. Thompson
Original Post here: http://blinkingline.org/post/133802624621
Noam Chomsky on Freedom of Expression
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
-Noam Chomsky
New On The Blinking Line Journal: "buy the best ingredients you can afford and do as little as possible to them."
buy the best ingredients you can afford and do as little as possible to them.
- Keith Floyd
From the Princeton Tiger, 1949
This is not very interesting
But if
You have read this far already
You will
Probably
Read as far as this:
And still
Not really accomplishing
Anything at all
You might
Even read on
Which brings you to
The line you are reading now
And after all that you are still
Probably dumb enough to keep
Right on making
A dope of yourself
By reading
As far down
The page as this.
– Anonymous
Making the Most Out of Things According to Muhammed Ali
If I had been a garbageman, I would have picked up more trash quicker and neater than anyone else ever had. If I’d been a reporter who got the chance to spend the day with Muhammed Ali, before I came to the interview, I would have thought long and hard about Ali the other reporters who had interviewed him before me. I would have reviewed all of their stories so that I could get a different perspective.
(from The Soul of a Butterfly)
Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone. That’s the easiest thing on earth, is to come up with an idea. The second thing is, the hardest thing on earth is to put it down.
–Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight Zone