I am in the smallest room of the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
Musician Max Reger in a letter to a critic. Quoted by Steven Jay Gould.
Americans believe that, if you throw enough money at a problem, it will go away.
Claus P. Regge
For a while we were in danger of becoming respectable.
Keith Richard
He was born with the silver foot in his mouth.
Ann Richards, former governor of Texas, of US President George Bush
A long, great quote by Donald Ritchie, who has been living in Japan 52 (sic) years.
I think that if I didn't feel like a foreigner, I wouldn't be here. I'm here because I am a foreigner, because I like being a foreigner. It's so rewarding to not to have to belong to things, to not be allowed to belong to things. When I was in Ohio, taking things for granted, it never occurred to me that I could lead a life in which I set my own obligations and decided how I wanted to comport myself. If you never leave your own culture, you're forever bound by it, and you're bound without ever realizing it. If you ask a person in America or Japan about American or Japanese culture, it's like asking a fish about water. What can they say? They inhabit it, they don't know anything about it. When you come over here, or anyplace different, you get your eyes opened, and you can never get them shut again.
Donald Ritchie. Extremely well said, and perfectly expresses my own feelings.
No matter how eloquently my dog may bark, he will never be able to say "My grandfather was poor, but honest".
Bertrand Russell
I am contradicting myself? Very well, then, I am contradicting myself.
Bertrand Russell. I am told (by Americans, of course) that R.W. Emerson (or was it Whitman?) said it before old Bertrand did. Did Emerson say it first? Very well then, he said it first.
Science is either physics or stamp-collecting.
Scientist Lord Rutherford
Incredible how vulgarity and stupidity can be found even in great minds. How nice then the fact that good old Ernie got a Noble prize, but for chemistry.