"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
"Every writer writes badly as soon as he starts writing for gain." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"The sleep of reason produces monsters." - Francisco Goya
"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift
Veel huvitavat lugemist ehk mõisteid igapäevaelust:
JOB A state of employment everyone wants but few look forward to on a Monday morning.
TABOO Any strict cultural prohibition that, when breached, causes everyone in the group to gasp; e.g., cannibalism, public nudity, serving fried pork rinds at a Hasidic wedding, or answering the question How are you? in the negative.
TALK SHOW An opportunity for people to confess to millions of viewers what they would be ashamed to admit to their next-door neighbors.
PARKING LOT Where we spend a quarter of an hour searching for a well-situated space so that we can avoid walking sixty seconds to the mall entrance.
SHALLOWNESS The root cause of chronic good health, high school popularity, appearance on the fiction bestseller lists and gainful employment on local TV news broadcasts. A most useful commodity, especially in combination with a pretty face.
ACADEMIA A chronic disease characterized by a compulsion to write lengthy specialized treatises in unintelligible vocabularies, for the purpose of rising in the esteem of those similarly afflicted.
CORPORATION A miniature totalitarian state governed by an unelected hierarchy of officials who take a dim view of individualism, free speech, equality and eggheads. The backbone of all Western democracies.
PROFESSIONAL MODEL Cheekbones that sell cosmetics, hipbones that sell anorexia.
Allikas: http://www.i-cynic.com/
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"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
* George Santayana
"War. War never changes."
* From the introductions of the Fallout computer game series voiced by Ron Perlman
" Radio show host: What's your latest obsession?
Hank Moody: Just the fact that people seem to be getting dumber and dumber. You know, I mean we have all this amazing technology and yet computers have turned into basically four figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, democratize us, but all it's really given us is Howard Dean's aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddie porn. People... they don't write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text, no punctuation, no grammar: LOL this and LMFAO that. You know, it just seems to me it's just a bunch of stupid people pseudo-communicating with a bunch of other stupid people at a proto-language that resembles more what cavemen used to speak than the King's English.
Radio show host: Yet you're part of the problem, I mean you're out there blogging with the best of them.
Hank Moody: Hence my self-loathing."
Californication, Season 1, Episode 5
Need kolm on tegelikult väga head pärlid.
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