Clifton Fadiman Quotes

Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist

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• It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Done
  • Why
  • Stress

• The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Ideas
  • Bed
  • Communism

• We must defend what we have achieved so far.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Achieved
  • Far
  • Defend

• One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Problems
  • Plan
  • Bold

• Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Company
  • Gentleman
  • Pink

• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Women
  • Children
  • Love

• Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Up
  • Artist
  • Loved

• A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Music
  • You

• I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

  

  Walid Jumblatt
  • Power
  • Tomorrow
  • Pen

• Actually, the fun part was not knowing what the heck I was going to be doing.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Fun
  • Doing
  • Not Knowing

• Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Baseball
  • Stomach
  • Charlie

• At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Party
  • Top
  • Jeans

• When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.

  

  Carla Hall
  • School
  • Why
  • Me

• I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • Love
  • Why

• I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Listen
  • Jazz
  • Big

• One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • End
  • Solution
  • Ships

• I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Starting

• Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • World
  • Truth
  • Substance

• Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Need
  • God Wants
  • Closed Eyes

• Once kids begin to realize that they are connected to a greater good and greater whole, then that will lessen the possibility that they will act out violently because it creates empathy.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Empathy

• England was a delightful and stimulating place for a young academic, although by present standards, the laboratory facilities were primitive. There were almost no research grants and no secretarial assistance, even for Sherrington.

  

  John Eccles
  • Present

• In real life, I have mostly gone for nice guys. I definitely had a phase where I was like, "Oh, the bad guy is really cool." It's fun to be bad for a while, and then that ended really terribly - one piece of advice I'll give to people is your mom is always right.

  

  Melissa Ordway
  • People
  • Like
  • Always

• Not to cover the subject, but to uncover and isolate a part of it … is the aim of the aphorist

  

  Clifton Fadiman