Must not fear,
fear is the mind killer, fear is the little death that brings oblivion to us
all...
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a
sense of humor.
Max Forrester Eastman (1883-1969) American
writer and editor Enjoyment of Laughter
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely
he is to have extreme prejudice.
Clint Eastwood (b. 1930) American
actor, politician
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other
alternatives.
Abba Eban (1915-2002) Israeli
politician and diplomat
There is a little immaturity stuck away in the crannies of even the most
judicious of us, and we should treasure it.
Roger Ebert (b. 1942) American
film critic Review
of _The Mummy_ (May 1999)
“That’s the centre of all
power, Aunt Pol,” he mused. “We can try to act civilized and polite, but at the
bottom of it all, the power of any ruler is based on threat.”
David and Leigh
Eddings, Polgara
the Sorceress
A normal human’s grasp of
reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.
David and Leigh
Eddings, Polgara
the Sorceress
I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in
proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that
will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas Edison
INTERVIEWER: Can you destroy the Earth?
THE TICK: Egad, I hope not! That's where I keep all my
stuff!
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
Arthur, I just had the strangest dream. I was taking some math test I
hadn't studied for ... and then you tried to saw off my head. Weird, huh?
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
Destiny's powerful hand has made the bed of my future and it's up to me
to lie in it. I am destined to be a superhero to right wrongs and pound
two-fisted justice into the hearts of evil-doers everywhere. You don't fight
destiny, no sir! And you don't eat crackers in the bed of your future or you
get all ... scratchy. Hey, I'm narrating here!
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
Everybody was a baby once, Arthur. Oh, sure, maybe not today, or even
yesterday. But once! Babies, chum: tiny, dimpled, fleshy mirrors of our
us-ness, that we parents hurl into the future, like leathery footballs of hope!
And you've got to get a good spiral on that baby, or evil will make an
interception!
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
I don't know the meaning of the word surrender! I mean, I know it, I'm not
dumb. Just not in this context.
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
I'm betting that I'm just abnormal enough to survive.
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh oooh oooh,
the sky is the limit!
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
Life is a big wild crazy tossed salad, but you don't eat it, no sir! You
live it! Isn't it great?
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
Well, once again my friend, we find that science is a two-headed beast.
One head is nice, it gives us aspirin and other modern conveniences, ... but the
other head of science is bad! Oh beware the other head of science, Arthur, it
bites!
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
Yes, evil comes in many forms, whether it be a man-eating cow or Joseph
Stalin, but you can't let the package hide the pudding! Evil is just plain bad!
You don't cotton to it. You gotta smack it in the nose with the rolled-up
newspaper of goodness! Bad dog! Bad dog!
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American
cartoonist The Tick
Perhaps one of the only pieces of advice that I was ever given was that
supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never
miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and
rest your feet.
Edward VIII (1894-1972) King of
There can be no more ancient
and traditional American value than ignorance. English-only speakers brought it
with them to this country three centuries ago, and they quickly imposed it on
the Africans-who were not allowed to learn to read and write-and on the Native
Americans, who were simply not allowed.
Barbara
Ehrenreich
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is
shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
Being a lover of freedom,
when the [Nazi] revolution came, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing
that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but no,
the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the great editors
of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone had proclaimed their
love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short
weeks.... Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign
for suppressing the truth. I never had any special interest in the Church
before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration for it because the
Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual and
moral freedom. I am forced to confess that what I once despised I now praise
unreservedly.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
God does not play
dice with the universe.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
If only I had known. I would
have been a locksmith.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
We are in the position of a
little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different
languages. The child knows someone must have written those books . It does not
know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The
child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but
doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most
intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and
obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds
cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
Human beings, vegetables, or
cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an
invisible player
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
The most
beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all
true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
It is strange to be known so
universally and yet to be so lonely.
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955) American physicist
He who joyfully
marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a
large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten
the gift.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
The world is a
dangerous place to be not because of the people who do evil; but because of the
people who stand by and let them.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American
physicist
Man no longer dreams over a
book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs
with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit
before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.
Loren Eiseley Strangeness in the
Proportion
You don't lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not
leadership.
Dwight David
Eisenhower (1890-1969)
I hate war as only a soldier
who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its
stupidity.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)
You don't promote the cause of peace by talking only to people with whom
you agree.
Dwight David
Eisenhower (1890-1969)
I like not only to be loved,
but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same
mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the
world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very
dear.
George Eliot
Any coward can fight a battle
when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's
sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a
defeat.
George Eliot
I've got a bust of [Abraham]
Lincoln on my desk, and everytime the going gets tough he looks at me and says,
'Ray...I tried 27 times to be elected to public office. Twenty seven times I
tried to be somebody. And I failed 25 times.
Ray Eliot
Footfalls echo the memory
down the passage which we did
not take
towards the door we never
opened
into the rose garden.
T.S. Eliot
If you want to understand
America, you must first understand how a country whose citizens are known the
world over for their outgoing self-confidence should emerge as a leading
consumer of drugs for social anxiety; how a nation dedicated to the freedom of
the individual should enforce standards for physical beauty with such rigidity
that grown women race to restaurant toilets to throw up their dinners; and how
a nation famed for its dedication to the pursuit of happiness should also be
such a fertile market for antidepressant medication.
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, author and professor at the
There’s one hole
in every revolution, large or small. And it’s one word long----PEOPLE. No
matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and
cheap and frightened. It’s people that kill every revolution.
Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan
“That’s what a monoculture is. It’s
everywhere, and it’s all the same. And it takes up alien cultures and digests
them and shits them out in a homogenous building-block shape that fits
seamlessly into the vast blank wall of the monoculture. This is the future. This is
what we built. This is what we wanted. It must have been. Because we all had the fucking choice, didn’t we? It is
only our money that allows commercial culture to flower. If we didn’t want to
live like this, we could have changed it any time, by not fucking paying for
it.
So lets celebrate
by all going out and buying the same burger.”
Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan: I Hate It Here
I am invisible,
understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
We may climb into
the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into
that of sensation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
By necessity, by
proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to
appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
Stay at home in
your mind. Don’t recite other people’s opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me
what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
I wish to say
what I think & feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall
contradict it all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
Tomorrow
a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and
felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion
from another.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
Truth is beautiful, without
doubt; but so are lies.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
What you do speaks so loudly
that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet
You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have
both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American
essayist and poet Journal
(October 1842)
I’m classified as
a Drinker with a writing problem.
Garth Ennis
Good does tend to
triumph one way or another. It just has to learn to fight dirtier than evil.
Garth Ennis
In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron (b. 1941) American
screenwriter, author
There is no good cause for religious persecution. No convert is true who
comes to the faith through pain and fear. All persecution does is plant seeds
of doubt amongst the hearts of the faithful as to the truth of their cause.
Graham Ericsson (b. 1947) American
writer
To say, "You're angry over such a little thing," is like
saying, "The fire started with just a little match." It may well be
true, but it does nothing to alleviate the present situation.
Graham Ericsson (b. 1947) American
writer
Aesthetics are
not morality. Don't confuse Taste for Truth, Icky for Evil, or Preference for
Perfection.
Graham Ericsson (b. 1947) American
writer My So-Called Deep Thoughts (2002)
I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher (1898-1972) Dutch
artist
Maybe it’s in the basement,
let me go up stairs and check .
M. C. Escher (1898-1972) Dutch
artist
That is the essence of a witch-hunt, that any questioning of the evidence
or the procedures in itself constitutes proof of complicity.
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.
Winning
is always better than losing; that's why we call it 'winning'.
Craig Ewert