On my Google front page (personalized), I have the "quote of the day". Much of the time, it is just noise and doesn't get looked at. The last couple of days however, I have enjoyed these. Yesterday it was:
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
- J. Hart
I know that was a little geeky. Today's is
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber
It is so easy to forget that others don't just tick but do all the other things like chiming, etc. It is all part of the human process of forgetting the magnificence of our creator.
1 comment:
That is a great Thurber quote. Anytime we try to reduce any human experience or process to something we can check off a list, we minimize it all.
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