This is for an advanced conversation class. I’ve gone through the alphabet and chosen 3 quotes for each letter
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll
“Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.”
― Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
― Charles Bukowski
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
― Charles Bukowski
“We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.”
― Charles Darwin
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
― Charles Darwin
“Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.”
― Charles Darwin, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein
“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein
“Schools serve the same social functions as prisons and mental institutions- to define, classify, control, and regulate people.”
― Michel Foucault
“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” – Sigmund Freud
“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.” – Sigmund Freud
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” – Galileo Galilei
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“A clever man commits no minor blunders.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. – Aldous Huxley
“Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.” – Aldous Huxley
“Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” – Stephen Hawking
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” – Frida Kahlo
“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.” – Henry Kissinger
“Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.”
― Frank Zappa
“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”
― Frank Zappa
“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
― Frank Zappa
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”” – Kurt Vonnegut
“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.” – Kurt
