Quotes for the Depression Forums 12-23
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:33 pm
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
-- Oscar Levant
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
-- Alan Patrick Herbert
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
-- James Thurber
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
-- Hannah Arendt
-- Oscar Levant
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
-- Alan Patrick Herbert
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
-- James Thurber
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
-- Hannah Arendt