Brain Food

This page is where I record favorite quotes, expressions, words, and concepts that I learned so as not to forget them.

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Quotes I Revisit:

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” Satan… well Satan in John Milton’s Paradise Lost

“The best way to criticize something is to make [it] better.” Author Kevin Kelly*

“You’re always where you leave yourself.” Unknown Source

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.” Edgar Munch

“To love you was to hand you a gun, and have you aim it at my heart, and pray you never pull the trigger.” Unknown Source

“I want to have so much light the plants grow towards me.” Adapted from Unknown Source

“Shared joy, is joy doubled. Shared sorrow, is sorrow halved.” Adapted from Swedish Proverb.

“Rains falls on everyone.” King the Land (2023 K-Drama)

Under-Appreciated Expressions:

  1. Like smoking on the Hindenburg…
  2. Like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic…

  3. Like putting lipstick on a pig.
  4. Excellent use of free will.
  5. Please don’t. Hesitate to ask.
  6. Hey train wreck, this isn’t your station.
  7. Veni, vidi, vici. (Came, saw, conquered.)
  8. Small potatoes.

Under-Used Words:

  1. Apropos
  2. Thespians
  3. Piste
  4. Chuffed
  5. Mettle
  6. Combobulated, gruntled, ruthful, chalant, couth, ingenuous, flappable, whelmed, feckful, sheveled, etc…

Misc.:

Oronym: a phrase or word that sounds like another phrase or word with a different meaning. My favorite example of this is in the Eiffel 65 song “Blue.”

Mondegreen: a misinterpreted word or phrase that results from mishearing lyrics. My favorite example of this is in the Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, “Blinded By The Light.”

Zeugma: e.g. “…went home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair.” Charles Dickens.

Misogi: the practice of doing one defining thing, something challenging and meaningful, for each year of your life

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Fermi Paradox

*I’m not familiar with Kevin Kelly’s work, but I liked this bit of advice