Quotes of the day 3-3
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:52 am
Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
-- Kate Reid
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
-- Robert Anthony
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946
Warmie
-- Kate Reid
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
-- Blaise Pascal
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy.
-- Robert Anthony
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
-- George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language", 1946
Warmie