Blunt Quote by Tom Stoppard

“as well balanced as an upturned pyramid.”

— Terry Pratchett

“This idea opened a door to my seeing that the rigors and trials of a task that big are not brick walls designed to…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

“We need no extra cunning, no new ideas, no unnecessary gadgets, no frantic hyperactivity - all we need is less rationality.”

— Rolf Dobelli

“I have no talent for collective activities- everything done in rectangles with rigid rules.”

— Eric Edward Dorman O'Gowan

“People say, "What is the sense of our small effort?" They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one…

— Dorothy Day

“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“I consider that a man’s brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The preposterous obstinacy of these honest people in persisting to groan and stumble along the difficult pathway rather than take advantage of modern improvements,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew…

— Mark Twain

“For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us…

— Alain de Botton

“Having come up with the idea that thetans could move objects with their minds, Hubbard and some of his acolytes sat around the kitchen…

— Janet Reitman

“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you…

— George Bernard Shaw