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Actor: What is my motivation?
Director George Abbott: Your job.
Abbott, a legend in his time—he worked until
Dubitando quippe ad inquisitionem
venimus; inquirendo veritatem percipimus.
Time wounds all heels.
This play on the proverbial “Time heals all wounds” was attributed by Goodman Ace to his
Everyone now agrees that a physics lacking all connection with mathematics...would only be an historical amusement, fitter for entertaining the
The rarest gift that God bestows on man is the capacity for decision.
speech, Freedom House, New York City, April
Common sense...has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of
The official language of the State of Illinois shall be known henceforth as the American language, and not as the
It is they [men of science] who hold the secret of the mysterious property of the mind by which error
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.
letter to
Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will
Art is the affirmation of life.
Adams attributed this saying to his great predecessor Alfred Stieglitz
in Playboy, May
Many thanks for the sending me the book Biology of the Striped Skunk...Frankly, I doubt whether I shall read
Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore, laws have no
The Spacious Firmament on high,With all the blue Etherial Sky,And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame,Their great Original
In this country … men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when
Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target.
Quoted in A.
It's not that he “bites off more than he can chaw,”…but he chaws more than he bites off.
Occasionally true
In psycho-analysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (1974), 28
In psychoanalysis nothing is
These are the saddest of possible words,“Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance.”
The Chicago Cubs trio of shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers,
We come back then to our records of nervous messages with a reasonable assurance that they do tell us what
