I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their p...leasure comes from what they know about things, and their pride from showing off what they know. But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Upon the whole I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all of those difficulties, which have hitherto amused phil...osophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have raised a dust, and then complain that we cannot see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Listen to me, as if I were Sybaris barking with all his heads, at the gates of Hell, I will tell you where to take it. But don't ...... don't open the box!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this... faculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, you look so pretty in it Honey, can I jump on it sometime?... Yes, I just wanna see If it's really that expensive kind You know it balances on your head Just like a mattress balances On a bottle of wine Your brand new leopard-skin pill-box hat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or ...insignificance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, in your rural letter box I leave this note without a stamp... To tell you it was just a tramp Who used your pasture for a camp.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Athletes and actors--let actors stand for the set of performing artists--share much. They share the need to make gesture as fluid ...and economical as possible, to make out of a welter of choices the single, precisely right one. They share the need for impeccable and split-second timing. They share the need for thousands of hours of practice in order to train the body to become the perfect, instinctive instrument to express. Both athlete and actor, out of that congeries of emotion, choice, strategy, knowledge of terrain, mood of spectators, condition of spectators in the ensemble, secret awareness of injury or weakness, and as nearly an absolute concentration as possible so that all externalities are integrated, all distraction absorbed to the self, must be able to change the self so successfully that it changes us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »