Category Archives: Quotations

Bits and pieces provoked by things someone said. Someone famous.

Let Me

Posted on 16 November 2019 by Isabel Gibson

One of them thar Texan poets. Continue reading →

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Two Stubborn Pieces of Iron

Posted on 14 February 2019 by Isabel Gibson

Chesterton on the relations between the sexes. Continue reading →

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The Same River

Posted on 13 January 2019 by Isabel Gibson

Yes, the universe is unfolding as it should. Continue reading →

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Some Power

Posted on 06 December 2018 by Isabel Gibson

Was Robert Burns a Flat-Earther, do you suppose? Continue reading →

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Time-Travelling Space Aliens

Posted on 12 March 2017 by Isabel Gibson

Half-remembered quotation causing trouble again. Continue reading →

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Life Is

Posted on 28 September 2014 by Isabel Gibson

Life is a bucket brigade: Don’t slop the bucket when it’s your turn. What’s that you say? You’ve never heard that metaphor for life before? You wonder if I made it up? Well, OK. I understand your skepticism. What else? … Continue reading →

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You’re Too Kind

Posted on 18 August 2013 by Isabel Gibson

Starting with the expression that “it takes all kinds,” I explore just how many kinds there are.   It takes all kinds, or so I hear.  Although it’s not when someone is being a fun, thoughtful, or salt-of-the-earth kind.  No, … Continue reading →

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By Bread Alone

Posted on 28 April 2013 by Isabel Gibson

A chance encounter with buckwheat tea leads to deep thoughts about bread, bread-like substances, and proverbs. It started innocently enough.  Doesn’t it always?  It ended with yet another overwhelming spell on Dr. Google’s couch.  But I get ahead of myself. … Continue reading →

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You Can Quote Me on That

Posted on 16 January 2011 by Isabel Gibson

It started innocently enough.  Doesn’t it always?  Toying with writing an article on how the mind works, I was amusing myself with the sparkly bits my subconscious kept dragging out for me to admire. “We see the world not as … Continue reading →

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