
Stanley Fish
"The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story."

"The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story."

"Skyscrapers along the New Jersey coast all looked the same color as my personal checks. One storefront rivaled Milton’s description of Chaos."

"Women always put men first. That's how everything got so screwed up."

"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry."

"Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches."

"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More

"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More


"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More