#wit

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair. ↗

In the old covenants the people were sprinkled with blood of calves without, in their bodies, to bind them to keep the law; else we were bound to just damnation, for the breaking of it. ↗

— William Tyndale

#blood #bodies #bound #breaking #calves

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#am #criticism #entered #goes #i

Few of us get anything without working for it. ↗

— William Feather

#few #get #us #without #working

Our students learn more in 30 days than one could learn in 30 years without our training. To really maximize your potential as an umpire, you need to get a solid foundation as soon as you can. ↗

— Jim Evans

#days #foundation #get #learn #maximize

The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#corrective #current #does #drab #either

There's this coming-of-age thing that's happening within me. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#me #thing #within

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#feed #links #look #me #number

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice. ↗

— Will Durant

#civilization #consent #exists #geological #notice

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right. ↗