#peri

Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstein, and an Ayershire?" Bryce: "No." Huxley: "Seabags Brown does." Bryce: "I don't see what that has to do..." Huxley: "What do you know about Gaelic history?" Bryce: "Not much." Huxley: "Then why don't you sit down one day with Gunner McQuade. He is an expert. Speaks the language, too." Bryce: "I don't..." Huxley: " What do you know about astronomy?" Bryce: "A little." Huxley: "Discuss it with Wellman, he held a fellowship." Bryce: "This is most puzzling." Huxley: "What about Homer, ever read Homer?" Bryce: "Of course I've read Homer." Huxley: "In the original Greek?" Bryce: "No" Huxley: "Then chat with Pfc. Hodgkiss. Loves to read the ancient Greek." Bryce: "Would you kindly get to the point?" Huxley: "The point is this, Bryce. What makes you think you are so goddam superior? Who gave you the bright idea that you had a corner on the world's knowledge? There are privates in this battalion who can piss more brains down a slit trench then you'll ever have. You're the most pretentious, egotistical individual I've ever encountered. Your superiority complex reeks. I've seen the way you treat men, like a big strutting peacock. Why, you've had them do everything but wipe your ass. ↗

— Leon Uris

#ego #humor #marine-corps #superior #humor

All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about. ↗

— Tiffany King

#gossip #inspirational #judging #life #me

To seek "causes" of poverty in this way is to enter an intellectual dead end because poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#prosperity #poverty

One of the things that we don't want to do is to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq, because in a few days we're going to own that country. ↗

— Tom Brokaw

#infrastructure #iraq #oil #iraq

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#die #experience #film #great #moment

I'm an academic. It's publish or perish. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#i #perish #publish

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. ↗

— Martha Graham

#dancing #education #experience #learning #performance

I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. ↗

— John Bolton

#experiment #fascination #grand #i #i think

As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the human organism, in the most intimate recesses of its being, manifests its capture in a symbolic dimension. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#being #capture #dimension #experience #grasp

We have so much left to experience and learn about each other - it's almost like we've been remarried with the show being over. Now it's a whole new life for us. ↗

— Nick Lachey

#almost #been #being #each #experience