I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Tag: Quote of the Day
21APR2020 – Quote of the Day
The highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!
Nikos Kazantzakis
20APR2020 – Quote of the Day
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Nikos Kazantzakis
19APR2020 – Quote of the Day
God changes appearances every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises. One moment he is a glass of fresh water, the next, your son bouncing on your knees or an enchanting woman, or perhaps merely a morning walk.
Nikos Kazantzakis
18APR2020 – Quote of the Day
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
Robert A. Heinlein
17APR2020 – Quote of the Day
One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don’t believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue… There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.
David Hilbert
16APR2020 – Quote of the Day
The Coffee Joke from Ninotchka
LEON: (starting to get sore) I suppose you don’t think that’s funny?
NINOTCHKA: No.
LEON: It seemed funny to me when I first heard it. Maybe the trouble isn’t with the joke. Maybe it’s with you!
NINOTCHKA: I don’t think so.
LEON: Maybe you haven’t any sense of humor. Well, I’ll give you one more chance! Now listen!
He gets up and speaks in a threatening voice audible to the entire room.
LEON: When I heard this joke for the first time I laughed myself sick. Here goes! A man comes into a restaurant and sits down and says, “Waiter! Get me a cup of coffee without cream.” After five minutes the waiter comes back and says, “I’m sorry, sir, we’re all out of cream, can it be without milk?”
(Written for the film Ninotchka by one of these men:
Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Walter Reisch or Melchior Lengyel)
15APR2020 – Quote of the Day
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
Archimedes
14APR2020 – Quote of the Day
“That’s wonderful. I do like a man that tells you right out he’s looking out for himself. Don’t we all? I don’t trust a man that says he’s not. And the man that’s telling the truth when he says he’s not I distrust most of all, because he’s an ass and an ass that’s going contrary to the laws of nature.”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
13APR2020 – Quote of the Day
“You always have, I must say, a smooth explanation ready.”
“What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?”
― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon