Arinn Dembo > Arinn's Quotes

“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
― Edward Albee

“Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
― Frederick Douglass

“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.”
― Frederick Douglass

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”
― Frederick Douglass

“I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hatethe corrupt, slaveholding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial, and hypocritical Christianity of this land. Indeed, I can see no reason, but the most deceitful one, for calling the religion of this land Christianity. I look upon it as the climax of all misnomers, the boldest of all frauds, and the grossest of all libels.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave / Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

“One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.”
― Alexandre Dumas

“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.”
― alexandre dumas

“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later years, and tell of happenings that are gone clean away, and be a voice for us out of the dark of time, and save many a fragile thing from the pounding of heavy ages; or carry to us, over the rolling centuries, even a song from lips long dead on forgotten hills.”
― Lord Dunsany, The King of Elfland's Daughter

“Adventure is just bad planning.”
― Roald Amundsen

“I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try.”
― Roger Ebert

“I have a very simple philosophy of life:

Kindness. Ferocious, unrelenting, ruthless, committed, passionate, kindness.

Life is sacred everywhere. We all have better things to do than beat each other up.

Arguing for the exception is to invest it with energy, it's to negotiate the loophole. The commitment to kindness must be total.”
― David Gerrold

“The happiness of a family is such a complex matter. Like a table laid out with a tea service, it looks so ordinary until it's threatened. Then it becomes infinitely precious.”
― Lynda Williams, Holy war

“Pie may just be the Madonna-whore of the dessert world.”
― Pascale Le Draoulec, American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America's Back Roads― A Delicious Food Journey Across America

“I applaud the needlessly beautiful in all things.”
― Arinn Dembo

“On the one hand, I don’t know a single person who says, “Yay! Purim is my favorite holiday!”

On the other hand, if there’s any holiday concept more Jewish than “Here’s the awful story of what happened to your great-great-grandmother. Have a cookie.” I don’t know what it is.”
― Arinn Dembo

“You can dump him in a car.
You can dump him in a bar.
You can dump him here or there.
You can dump him anywhere.
You can dump him with a text.
He should be your future ex.”
― Arinn Dembo

“What makes a scientist a "Mad Scientist"?

A lack of desire to publish, mainly.”
― Arinn Dembo