Quotes - July 20, 2012

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

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

There is no good lighting that is healthy and for our well being without proper darkness.
-- Roger van der Heide, TED: Why Light Needs Darkness, 2011

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
-- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
-- Eric Hoffer