Sometimes a list of quotes is enough.

Quotes, Part Four | Tom Pappalardo: 

“There is less here than meets the eye.”
– Dorothy Parker

Tom's previous lists: Part Three, Part Two, Part One.

Book cover inspired desktop wallpapers, with quotes.

Turn all book covers into wallpapers | MetaFilter Projects: 

Detail from a larger image via MeFi

"Why not high resolution, wallpaper ready versions of book covers?" And since they didn't exist, I started to make them.

"Everybody is a genius ... "

Author Albert Einstein Quote Fish Need To Swim - pix | placebo

Einstein: " ... if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,
it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

Mark Twain on Censorship

Mark Twain on Censorship : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:

'But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.'

The Gervais sign-off.

"Thank you to God for making me an atheist."
-- Ricky Gervais, closing the 2011 Golden Globes

Mixed reviews for Gervais tonight, as expected. In atheist circles, I think there'll be some mixed feelings as well about his sign-off. Look, anything that helps nudge atheism into the mainstream is aces in my book, but I expect the backlash for the comment will have some weight due to the backlash against some of his other barbed remarks. (Call it the "See-Atheists-Are-Mean-Spirited-Pricks Effect.")

Unexpected Wisdom

Richard Nixon, "Remarks on the Departure from the White House": August 9, 1974