Theodore > Theodore's Quotes

“Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!”
― Milan Kundera, Immortality

“O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts”
― Salman Rushdie

“I look and I look...
I must have come to the wrong planet.
It's so strange here.”
― Sigbjørn Obstfelder

“Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions”
― Marcel Proust

“The castironpiles, the castironpiles--to hell with the castironpiles”
― Sigbjørn Obstfelder

“I can't look at everything hard enough!”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town

“Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order. But we don't have such people anymore at the universities, and the reason is tenure. When the time comes to grant it nowadays, the radicals get screened out. That's its principal function. It's a very good system, really - keeps academic life at a decent level of tranquility.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith, A Tenured Professor

“Comedians aren't funny, because comedians try to be funny, and people who try to be funny aren't funny.”
― Anonymous Blog Post