“El ajedrez es uno de los medios que tenemos para salvar la cultura, como el latín, el estudio de las humanidades, la lectura de los clásicos, las leyes de la versificación, la ética. El ajedrez es hoy reemplazado por el fútbol, el boxeo o el tenis, que son juegos de insensatos, no de intelectuales.”–Jorge Luis … More Quote of the day

“Another bad habit of self-conscious writing is the prissy use of quotation marks–sometimes called shudder quotes or scare quotes–to distance the writer from a common idiom. . . . The use of shudder quotes is taken to an extreme in the agonizingly self-conscious, defiantly un-classic style of postmodernism, which rejects the possibility that any word … More Quote of the Day

“I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.” ― Gore Vidal, Death Before Bedtime    

“Everything Israel has done, and I emphasize everything, in the past 23 years is either evil stupidity or stupidly evil.“–Yeshayahu Leibowitz (said in 1990)

“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things. Among them are H. L. Hunt (you possibly know his … More Quote of the Day

“I’ve always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals… I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?”—Anne Tyler

“We hate Big Pharma. We hate big government. We don’t trust The Man. And we shouldn’t. Our health care system sucks. It’s cruel to millions of people. It’s absolutely astonishingly cold and soul-bending to those of us who can even afford it. So we run away from it, and where do we run? We leap … More Quote of the Day

“After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered ‘obsessively Googling symptoms’ is a symptom of hypochondria.” ― Stephen Colbert

“My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.”—Cary Grant  

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”– Winston Churchill