In the past, when gays were very flamboyant as drag queens or as leather queens or whatever, that just amused people. And most of the people that come and watch the gay Halloween parade, where all those excesses are on display, those are straight fam...
I'm frequently asked, "Do you believe there's extraterrestrial intelligence?" I give the standard arguments- there are a lot of places out there, the molecules of life are everywhere, I use the word billions, and so on. Then I say it would be astonis...
I sit beside the fire and think Of all that I have seen Of meadow flowers and butterflies In summers that have been Of yellow leaves and gossamer In autumns that there were With morning mist and silver sun And wind upon my hair I sit beside the fire ...
Ask advice of an ignorant man and he will think you are his enemy.
When traveling do not calculate the distance, at dinner don't think of how much.
The drunkard thinks of only one thing and the barman of something else.
He has the greatest blind side who thinks he has none.
Who never built a house thinks that the walls grow out of the ground.
The bad man thinks that everybody looks like him.
Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
If you think about things too long, good thoughts will disappear.
Thinking of where you are going, you forget from whence you came.
A woman talks to one man, looks at another, and thinks about a third.
When a neighbor gets divorced everyone thinks of his own wife.
Keesha looked at me for a long time. "I did leave you alone. We all did. But you didn't get better. You didn't stop. You're still doin' all your weird shit. And I think it's time to stop." "You think it's time to stop!" I exploded, and lunged at her ...
Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child - there they do not know me not even my most intimate acquaintance - I give into their feelings as though I were refraining from irritating a little ch...
Ricky Roma: All train compartments smell vaguely of shit. It gets so you don't mind it. That's the worst thing that I can confess. You know how long it took me to get there? A long time. When you die you're going to regret the things you don't do. Yo...
Juror #3: [as Juror 8 sets up an experiment to see if the old man could reach his front door in 15 seconds] What do you mean, *you* wanna try it? Why didn't his lawyer bring it up if it's so important? Juror #5: Well, maybe he just didn't think about...
In sum, then, "thinking about thinking" has to be a principal ingredient of any empowering practice of education.
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.
