Quotes - October 18, 2010
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:08 pm
Thanks Stephen
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
-- Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
-- Seneca
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
-- Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
-- Jean Sibelius, quoted in Bengt de Torne "Sibelius: A Close-Up" 1937
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
-- Seneca
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson
Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.
-- Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003