‘One of those things you gotta feel to be true’

‘One of those things you gotta feel to be true’ July 30, 2014

“It’s based on a legend where three supremely powerful goddesses asked a worthless male mortal to rank them in order of attractiveness in order to win a sculpture of a fruit. Which says so much in such a short amount of time about ancient Greek sexual politics, I think.”

And then there’s the Japanese word tsundoku, which perfectly describes the state of my apartment.”

Did you ever think Cosmo would run an image of dermestid beetles nibbling on a goose carcass? Well they did.”

Rev. Maupin says that while he has never been a patron of the strip club, he was told by the owner that the dancers voted to give him their endorsement due to his support of issues important to workers: all-day kindergarten, an increased minimum wage, and making student loans more affordable.”

It just didn’t seem right, the Cincinnati mom [said], after she found her son’s ice cream sandwich sitting mostly intact on the patio table, 12 hours after he left it there, on an 80-degree day.”

Harriet“All I can tell you is that we have people that know how to make a Hydrox, that they might have made it in the past, maybe.”

American tabloids picked up the story, and gussied it up, and then the Internet arrived.”

“At many schools — although they may not know it — liberal arts majors are in effect helping to underwrite the high cost of science and technical education.”

“One time I was visiting a church and the pastor got up and started preaching a sermon about people not being related to apes, and he started talking about this scientist in Montana who discovered red blood cells in dinosaur bones — he didn’t know I was in the audience — and it was my research he was talking about! Unfortunately, he got everything wrong.”

“Say what you will of hypocrisy, at least it maintains the possibility of an ethos.”

“In other words, the way to make reason more comprehensible in today’s world is through revelation.”

“You could be the only person who gets it for somebody else out there.”

“Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the world’s factories every day.”

“So a guy walks into a bar one day and he can’t believe his eyes. There, in the corner, there’s this one-foot-tall man, in a little tuxedo, playing a tiny grand piano. …


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