Joseph Wood Krutch Famous Quotes
Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.
"A book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other 'modern means of communication' ... can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed."
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
"Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."
Joseph Wood Krutch Quotations
We must dare to think unthinkable thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world.
William Fullbright
"When important decisions have to be taken, the natural anxiety to come to a right decision will often keep you awake. Nothing, however, is more conducive to healthful sleep than plenty of open air."
Sir John Lubbock
"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."
Edith Sitwell
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
Don Herold
This administration is totally colorblind.
Ronald Reagan
"Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A father is a banker provided by nature.
French Proverb