#ode

Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#bit #machine #modern #noise #really

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#different #human #human consciousness #human species #mode

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#dispose #fuller #gives #imperfections #learning

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#down #erudition #moderns #plagiarism #steal

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#companion #even #genius #inseparable #moderation

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#ills #indifference #life #modes #philosophy

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#complete #delivers #friends #hands #i

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#exploit #fleet #highway #make #modern

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible. ↗

— Rachael Leigh Cook

#i #interest #model #nor #possible

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#exhibitionism #modesty #would