| "Our task is not to FIX the blame for the past, but to FIX the course for the future." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to FIX things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to FIX things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home." »Dave Barry |
| "The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then FIX it in form." »Francois Delsarte |
| "What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and FIX our attention on his infirmities." »Joseph Addison |
| "We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to FIX our problem." »Edward M. Berckman |
| "There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I dont know what can be done to FIX it. This is it Only nut cases want to be president." »Kurt Vonnegut |
| "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may FIX its intellectual eye." »Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley |
| "One cannot FIX one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy." »Jane Austen |
| "Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. FIX your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, FIX it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never FIXes anything." »Mary Hemingway |
| "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. FIX reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." »Thomas Jefferson |
| "What I want to FIX your attention on is the vast overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence -- moral, cultural, social or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how 'democracy' (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient dictatorships, and by the same methods The basic proposal of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be 'undemocratic.' Children who are fit to proceed may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval's attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT. We may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when 'I'm as good as you' has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish. The few who might want to learn will be prevented who are they to overtop their fellows And anyway, the teachers -- or should I say nurses -- will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men." »Clive Staples Lewis |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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