Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quote. Show all posts

Sunday, October 16, 2016

The Quotable Albert Einstein

The words of the highly-quotable Albert Einstein appear on a t-shirt offered for sale on Nassau Street in Princeton. Einstein remains a popular figure in Princeton, but there is no evidence that this quotation about the difference between stupidity and genius, clever as it is, was ever said by him. According to Quote Investigator, this saying is derived from a French quotation which first appeared in print in 1865 where it was attributed to Alexandre Dumas, fils. Nevertheless, you will be forgiven if you choose not to debate this point across the street from the campus of Princeton University.

"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."

—Albert Einstein
T-shirt available at Landau in Princeton


Note:  Yes, you can quote me on that!


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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Drew Friedman: Keith Richards's Malady

Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards is quoted in the September 2011 Reader's Digest.
"I'm free of hypochondria--although I have everything else." Drew Friedman's illustration shows the aging Stones guitarist diagnosing himself with a stethoscope. Friedman must have been an obvious choice for this assignment, given the musician's copious wrinkles and this caricaturist's trademark affinity for them.

The original artwork was offered on eBay back in 2012 by the Scott Eder Gallery. The bidding rose to $2,425, but the reserve was not met.

A new exhibition, "Drew Friedman's Old Jewish Comedians," is being shown at the Society of Illustrators in New York. The opening reception is tonight.

Drew Friedman, Keith Richards
Reader's Digest, September 2011, p. 185

Drew Friedman, Keith Richards
Reader's Digest, September 2011, p. 185


Keith Richards by Drew Friedman, eBay Item Listing 

This is the right hat, but it isn't the right reference photo.


Drew Friedman, Keith Richards
Reader's Digest, September 2011, p. 185

Note:  My first post on artist Drew Friedman may be seen here.

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Thursday, May 30, 2013

A Fortune Cookie for the Class of 2013

I would ask this year's graduating class to please take note of the following timely fortune cookie:


"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

Also, the Class of 2013 should feel free to be further inspired by these YouTube videos.
Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
("Land of Hope and Glory")
(Last Night of the Proms 2012)

Fountains of Wayne
"Prom Theme"

July 21, 2013 Update:  The fortune cookie quotation apparently has been around for a while, but I hadn't seen it before. I learned that it is often attributed to Gandhi, but this is what Brian Morton had to say in the New York Times of August 29, 2011:
Starting from the fourth paragraph:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/opinion/falser-words-were-never-spoken.html?_r=0



So I apologize to the Class of 2013 for dispensing hackneyed advice from a bumper sticker. In my defense, I thought it came from a fortune cookie.

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