“I’ll let the racket do the talking.”
~ John McEnroe, b. 16 February 1959
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Galileo Galilei (b. Feb 15): “Nature is relentless and unchangeable.”
15 Feb
“Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.”
~ Galileo Galilei, b. 15 February 1564
E.L. Doctorow: “Writing a novel is like driving a car at night.”
13 Feb
“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
~ E. L. DOCTOROW
Ezra Pound: “Never put more on a page than the common reader can lap off it.”
12 Feb
“The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.”
~ EZRA POUND
Ray Manzarek (b. Feb 12): “Psychedelics put you in touch with the creator.”
12 Feb
“The point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the creator, the creative impulse of the planet, the universe.”
~ Ray Manzarek, b. 12 February 1939
George Orwell: “The enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
11 Feb
“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.”
~ GEORGE ORWELL
Sheryl Crow (b. Feb 11): “Music is the soundtrack to your life.”
11 Feb
“Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events in your life.”
~ Sheryl Crow, b. 11 February 1962
Ernest Hemingway: “Punctuation should be conventional.”
10 Feb
“My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.”
~ ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Bertolt Brecht (b. Feb 10): “No one can be good for long.”
10 Feb
“No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.”
~ Bertolt Brecht, b. 10 February 1898
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