John Ciardi on Art
July 8th, 2008Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
- John Ciardi
Joe Kapp on Sports
July 8th, 2008Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can’t wait to beat another human’s guts out?
- Joe Kapp
Walter Lippmann on Science
July 8th, 2008The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief… that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.
- Walter Lippmann
Hank Aaron on Sports
July 7th, 2008My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
- Hank Aaron
Ralph Gerard on Imagination
July 7th, 2008Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
- Ralph Gerard
Emma Goldman on Knowledge & Learning
July 7th, 2008No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
Sam Ewing on Jobs & Working
July 7th, 2008Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.
- Sam Ewing
William Gibson on Technology
July 6th, 2008I don’t have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
- William Gibson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Love
July 6th, 2008Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
George S. Patton on War
July 6th, 2008The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- George S. Patton
