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Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012
In memoriam: After years of health problems, Facts has finally died.
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If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, “Well this isn’t too bad, I don’t have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I’m left-handed or right-handed” but most of us would say something more along the lines of “Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!
Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid) -
Pamela Meyer: How to Spot a Liar [TED Talk]
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I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.
Madeleine L’Engle -
Word of the Day 09/21/11: mendacity
mendacity [men-das-i-tee]: Untruthfulness
The director was forced to resign upon exposure of his past mendacity.
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Because, what does it mean, to say that things aren’t going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that’s not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can’t spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first.
from The Gun Seller by Hugh Laurie [hilariously witty book!]
a miscellaneous assortment of things
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