Quotes -February 8, 2011

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
-- August Strindberg, A Madman's Diary, 1895

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
-- William James

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
-- Stephen King, "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten Minutes", 1988

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
-- Elvis Costello, Interview in Musician magazine, October 1983