It's A Quote

[Gwaithmir]

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college degree." (Mark Twain) 

[Fake Messiah]

Here are some quotes from the letters by Isaac Asimov, including that famous and ubiqutus one:

22 February 1966
I’m working on my Bible book. I’ve just reached the part where the Israelites have been seduced into apostasy by the Moabite women (in the Book of Numbers), and Moses gets all self-righteous about the wickedness of the women who deliberately seduced the poor, innocent Israelites (except that Moses ordered the slaughter of all of the Israelites without mercy).
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.


28 December 1981
Although I am an atheist and was interviewed on a program called Equal Time for Atheists on 25 December, I then afterward sang Christmas carols. I like the tunes and I like the festivities and we had a good time.

1 November 1966
Luke and Matthew both give material on the birth and childhood of Jesus, and they do not correspond AT A SINGLE POINT. Whatever one says the other doesn’t say. Nobody but a dedicated Christian could possibly read the gospels and not see them as a tissue of nonsense—at least the legendary and miraculous material in them.

1 December 1990
I have written on religion and science and have never made any secret of the fact that I am an atheist. My feeling is, quite simply, that if there is a God, He has done such a bad job that He isn’t worth discussing.

22 December 1967
I just saw the movie The Bible. I knew it was a bad picture, having carefully read the reviews which unanimously panned it. But I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw how bad it really was.
The first half of Genesis was approached with such literality and hidebound reverence that there was no chance of creativity. The letter was there, and there, and there, but the spirit was utterly lacking.
I kept thinking bitterly of "The Green Pastures", which presented the Bible as seen by illiterate Negroes, with the crudest anthropomorphism and with the anachronisms played for laughs. "The Green Pastures" was a noble rendition that caught the spirit, breathed true reverence and was all the Bible ought to be. This thing by John Huston was just trash.

[Fireball]

If one has read Asimov's stories, they are so cogently written, with a lot of subtleties and convolutions, that it's no surprise that he could dice up the buy-bull. I have to be on my game, even reading his older writings, tp get it all. He wrote some incredibly convoluted murder mysteries, as well. The man was brilliant, no question.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

If one has read Asimov's stories, they are so cogently written, with a lot of subtleties and convolutions, that it's no surprise that he could dice up the buy-bull. I have to be on my game, even reading his older writings, tp get it all. He wrote some incredibly convoluted murder mysteries, as well. The man was brilliant, no question.

"Beware of the true believer, in religion, politics or sport. At best he's naive, at worst dangerous" (Tarquin S Shagnasty)

Religion: " Man's attempt to communicate with the weather" (Graffito, Cambridge 2000)

Christian: " One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin" (Ambrose Bierce)

Archbishop: "A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ" (H L Mencken)

"If all the debutantes in this room were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised" (Dorothy Parker)

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘This is the sort of nonsense I will not put up with.’ - Winston Churchill, after being admonished for ending a sentence with a preposition.

Boru

[Fireball]

When people snidely tell me not to end a sentence with a preposition, I repeat the sentence, but add a word. For instance, Churchill's quote-

This is the sort of nonsense I will not put up with, asshole. 

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

‘This is the sort of nonsense I will not put up with.’ - Winston Churchill, after being admonished for ending a sentence with a preposition.

Boru

 There were a pair of thrill killers in the US called Leopold and Loeb, sons of wealth. In 1924, they kidnapped and murdered a bloke just to see what it felt like. Because of their youth, they were not executed. 

One apparently made a pass at some bloke and was killed for doing so.

 In  January 1936,Walter Winchell  Wrote "Thrill killer Richard Loeb  today ended his sentence with a proposition".

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego, where you're constantly focused on scoring hits against each other. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind.' - Jacinda Ardern

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.’ - Simon de Beauvoir

Boru

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

'I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego, where you're constantly focused on scoring hits against each other. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind.' - Jacinda Ardern

Boru

She really said that? Funny, she doesn't  look  especially stupid.  Her persona is her greatest asset imo.  She just seems so fucking nice.