Quotes from Books & Magazines as I Read Them

Submitted by buddy on Tue, 07/26/2005 - 09:35
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  • July 2005

  • Fool’s Fate

    (from the Tawny Man Trilogy) by Robin Hobb
    Fear is the only thing that a man cannot take from a coward.

  • The Food Doctor Everyday Diet

    by Ian Marber, DIP ION
    If you get to a point where you see food simply as something that will make you fat or thin, then your vision has become blurred.

  • August 2005

  • MetroLife (Manchester edition)

    CD review by Rahul Verma, Aug.1 2005
    Buck 65 operates on the peripheries of hip hop: his music is built around guitars, pianos, banjos and violins, and often seems closer to folk. Secret House Against the World takes in blues, pumped up rap-rock and punk, its only nods to conventional hip hop being Buck 65's spoken-word delivery and scratching. However, Buck's strange brew is powerful and evocative, particularly his distillation of small-town alienation and desolation on The Suffering Machine and the hushed tones of a seven-year-old witnessing domestic violence behind the facade of a white picket fence (The Floor). It's probably a leap too far for rap purists, but without mavericks such as Buck 65 pushing the boundaries and challenging perconceptions, hip hop would never evolve.

  • ‘Would You Like Fulfillment With That?’ Requiem for a bad joke…and a tired public myth

    by Ken Norrie
    "An engineering graduate asks how that works," goes the joke. "A science graduate asks why that works. So what does an arts graduate ask?"
  • The answer, of course, is: "Would you like fries with that?"
  • [...snip...]
  • The statistics give us a chance to laugh at the joke…ironically. Consider this:
  • In 1998, UBC economist Robert Allen concluded that a background in the liberal arts provides remarkable long-term earning power. Graduates of humanities and social sciences programs see their incomes continue to soar as they move from their twenties to their fifties.
  • Allen also found that liberal arts graduates are more likely than technical specialists to be employed in professional or managerial jobs.
  • A recent University of Alberta Senate study revealed that, three years after graduating, our alumni enjoy a startlingly low unemployment rate: 1.2 per cent. This is even better than the university’s overall rate of 1.5 per cent.
  • [...snip...]
  • I [...] finished my presentation with a joke. Not the joke...but almost.
  • "An engineering graduate asks how that works," I said. "A science graduate asks why that works. So what does an arts graduate ask?"
  • They waited for me, dead silent.
  • "An arts graduate asks, ‘Could you have answers to those questions on my desk by Friday morning?’"

  • Surfacing

    by Margaret Atwood
    [S]tupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

  • March 2006

  • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

    by Tom Robbins
    Yet success musn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.
Author Comments: 

I'm ripping this off of Jim, who cloned cmonster's list. Sadly, my quotes are short and not very in-depth, but I intend to keep this list updated as I notice more quotables in my reading.