• You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go. - View Quote Details on You can say that strikers are very much like postmen:…
• “Toad of Toad Hall ?.”
  - on then Chelsea manager Avram Grant. - View Quote Details on - on then Chelsea manager...">“Toad of Toad Hall ?.”
  - on then Chelsea manager…
• “It’s all very well having a great pianist playing but it’s no good if you haven’t got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.”
  - after being criticised for using defensive players in midfield. - View Quote Details on “It’s all very well having a great pianist playing but…
• “I call us the Orange club - because our future’s bright!”
  - on QPR’s potential. - View Quote Details on “I call us the Orange club - because our future’s…
• “He’s six foot something, fit as a flea, good looking - he’s got to have something wrong with him. Hopefully he’s hung like a hamster - That would make us all feel better. Having said that, me missus has got a pet hamster at home, and his cock’s massive.” - talking about Cristiano Ronaldo. - View Quote Details on “He’s six foot something, fit as a flea, good looking…
• “It’s like the film Men in Black. I walk around in a black suit, white shirt and black tie where I’ve had to flash my white light every now and again to erase some memories, but I feel we’ve got hold of the galaxy now. It’s in our hands.”
  - Holloway on QPR’s financial situation. - View Quote Details on “It’s like the film Men in Black. I walk around…
• “It was lucky that the linesman wasn’t stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.”
  - Holloway states his opinion about the linesman’s performance in a game against Bristol City. - View Quote Details on “It was lucky that the linesman wasn’t stood in front…
• “He’s been out for a year and Richard Langley is still six months away from being Richard Langley, and I could do with a fully fit Richard Langley.”
  - on midfielder Richard Langley’s injury rehabilitation. - View Quote Details on “He’s been out for a year and Richard Langley is…
• “I am a football manager. I can’t see into the future. Last year I thought I was going to Cornwall on my holidays but I ended up going to Lyme Regis.”
  - asked whether QPR would be able to beat Manchester City. - View Quote Details on “I am a football manager. I can’t see into the…
• I have such bad luck at the moment that if I fell in a barrel of boobs I’d come out sucking my thumb. - View Quote Details on I have such bad luck at the moment that if…
• “To put it in gentleman’s terms if you’ve been out for a night and you’re looking for a young lady and you pull one, some weeks they’re good looking and some weeks they’re not the best. Our performance today would have been not the best looking bird but at least we got her in the taxi. She weren’t the best looking lady we ended up taking home but she was very pleasant and very nice, so thanks very much, let’s have a coffee”
  - on the “ugly” win against Chesterfield. This is perhaps Holloway’s most famous quote. - View Quote Details on “To put it in gentleman’s terms if you’ve been out…
• I always say that scoring goals is like driving a car. When the striker is going for goal, he’s pushing down that accelerator, so the rest of the team has to come down off that clutch. If the clutch and the accelerator are down at the same time, then you are going to have an accident. - View Quote Details on I always say that scoring goals is like driving a…
• “I’ve ridden a horse but I’m rubbish at it. I look like a crab sat on a horse with my hunched back. I’ve got rounded shoulders so I’m in all sorts of trouble and the bloody horse seems to know it as well! Many a time my wife’s seen me in excruciating agony when I’ve gone down instead of going up - let’s just say those bloody saddles are rather hard.”
  - on riding horses. - View Quote Details on “I’ve ridden a horse but I’m rubbish at it. I…
• “When you’re a manager it’s a case of have suitcase will travel, and I certainly didn’t want to travel with my trousers down.”
  - October 2006 - View Quote Details on “When you’re a manager it’s a case of have suitcase…
• There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth. - View Quote Details on There was a spell in the second half when I…
• “Hasney’s bust his hooter. He can smell round corners now.”
  - on an injury sustained by central defender Hasney Aljofree - View Quote Details on “Hasney’s bust his hooter. He can smell round corners now.”…
• “Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.”
  - on veteran striker Paul Furlong. - View Quote Details on “Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost…
• “When my wife first saw Marc for the first time, she said he was a fine specimen of a man. She says I have nothing to worry about, but I think she wants me to buy her a QPR shirt with his name on the back for Christmas.”
  - on QPR’s new Danish striker Marc Nygaard. - View Quote Details on “When my wife first saw Marc for the first time,…
• I want to try and spread the support with my Bristol connection. Rovers are in the bottom division so why can’t I try and convert some of them into Argyle fans? We’re in the West Country so it’s not that far away. Only two and a half hours away in a slow car, an hour and a half in a fast one - or 10 minutes in a rocket! As long as you aimed it right, you’d be down here really quickly. Don’t land it on the pitch, though, because you’d ruin it! - View Quote Details on I want to try and spread the support with my…
• “”Sir David Beckham ? You’re having a laugh. He’s just a good footballer with a famous bird. Can you imagine if Posh was called Lady Beckham? We’d never hear the end of it!”
  - on rumours about a possible knighthood for David Beckham. - View Quote Details on “”Sir David Beckham ? You’re having a laugh. He’s just…
• “It was a bit cheeky wasn’t it? But I don’t think it was that bad. It would have been worse if he’d turned round and dropped the front of his shorts instead. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a couple of butt cheeks personally. (…) If anybody’s offended by seeing a backside, get real. Maybe they’re just jealous that he’s got a real nice tight one, with no cellulite or anything.”
  - on Manchester City midfielder Joey Barton mooning Everton fans - View Quote Details on “It was a bit cheeky wasn’t it? But I don’t…
• “Have you ever seen The Incredibles ? They have a a kid and he’s just so quick, like ‘WOOSH’ and he’s gone, and they call him ‘Dash’.
  - on Scott Sinclair, then on loan at Argyle. - View Quote Details on “Have you ever seen The Incredibles ? They have a…
• Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the moon. - View Quote Details on Sometimes when you aim for the stars, you hit the…
• Sometimes it’s time for hen fap, and now is one of those times!. - View Quote Details on Sometimes it’s time for hen fap, and now is one…
• I’ve got to knock that horrible smell out of my boys, because they smell of complacency. - View Quote Details on I’ve got to knock that horrible smell out of my…
• “We’ve got a good squad and we’re going to cut our cloth accordingly, but I think the cloth that we’ve got could make some good soup, if that makes any sense”.
  - Despite popular belief, Holloway was in fact misquoted as saying “soup” but actually said “suit”. - View Quote Details on “We’ve got a good squad and we’re going to cut…
• ” He’s a complete fruitcake, that bloke, isn’t he? We’ve got to be careful with him, he’s after the old crazy mantle and he’s going to win it hands down.”
  - on Stephen Ireland - View Quote Details on ” He’s a complete fruitcake, that bloke, isn’t he? We’ve…
• I believe in what I am doing totally and once people speak to me they do too - I could sell snow to the Eskimos. - View Quote Details on I believe in what I am doing totally and once…
• Every dog has its day, and today is woof day! Today I just want to bark!”
  - Holloway after securing promotion to the Championship. - View Quote Details on Every dog has its day, and today is woof day!…
• “He is the oldest swinger in town but at this level he will add a touch of class.”
  - on veteran midfielder Teddy Sheringham. - View Quote Details on “He is the oldest swinger in town but at this…
• You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I’m like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad. - View Quote Details on You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used…
• “Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.”
  - On criticism from Plymouth Argyle fans during Leicester City’s match against Plymouth Argyle.<ref>Holloway Column, BBC Sport: Football (website), retrieved 15 February 2008, page now lapsed.</ref> - View Quote Details on - On...">“Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.”
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About Ian Holloway

Ian Holloway (born 12 March 1963) is an English football manager.

• As quoted in “Wizard Edison” in The Newark Advocate (2 January 1903), p. 1 according to reasearch by Barbara and David P. Mikkelson at snopes.com - View Quote Details on As quoted in “Wizard Edison” in The Newark Advocate (2…
• Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. - View Quote Details on Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
• Looking back to those times we cannot, without much reading, clearly gauge the sentiment of the Colonies. Perhaps the larger number of responsible men still hoped for peace with England. They did not even venture to express the matter that way. Few men, indeed, had thought in terms of war.
  Then Paine wrote ‘Common Sense,’ an anonymous tract which immediately stirred the fires of liberty. It flashed from hand to hand throughout the Colonies. One copy reached the New York Assembly, in session at Albany, and a night meeting was voted to answer this unknown writer with his clarion call to liberty. The Assembly met, but could find no suitable answer. Tom Paine had inscribed a document which never has been answered adversely, and never can be, so long as man esteems his priceless possession.
  In ‘Common Sense’ Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again.. It must be remembered that ‘Common Sense’ preceded the declaration and affirmed the very principles that went into the national doctrine of liberty. But that affirmation was made with more vigor, more of the fire of the patriot and was exactly suited to the hour. It is probable that we should have had the Revolution without Tom Paine. Certainly it could not be forestalled, once he had spoken. - View Quote Details on Looking back to those times we cannot, without much reading,…
• There is time for everything. - View Quote Details on There is time for everything.
• There is a great directing head of people and things — a Supreme Being who looks after the destinies of the world.
  I am convinced that the body is made up of entities that are intelligent and are directed by this Higher Power. When one cuts his finger, I believe it is the intelligence of these entities which heals the wound. When one is sick, it is the intelligence of these entities which brings convalescence. You know that there are living cells in the body so tiny that the microscope cannot find them at all. The entities that give life and soul to the human body are finer still and lie infinitely beyond the reach of our finest scientific instruments. When these entities leave the body, the body is like a ship without a rudder — deserted, motionless and dead. - View Quote Details on There is a great directing head of people and things…
• My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it. What a soul may be is beyond my understanding. - View Quote Details on My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as…
• We really haven’t got any great amount of data on the subject, and without data how can we reach any definite conclusions? All we have — everything — favors the idea of what religionists call the “Hereafter.” Science, if it ever learns the facts, probably will find another more definitely descriptive term. - View Quote Details on We really haven’t got any great amount of data on…
• Hell, there are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something. - View Quote Details on Hell, there are no rules here — we’re trying to…
• We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything. - View Quote Details on We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
• The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. - View Quote Details on The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but…
• It is very beautiful over there! - View Quote Details on It is very beautiful over there!
• I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours — and thrived on it. - View Quote Details on I owe my success to the fact that I never…
• He felt there was a central processing core of life that went on and on. That was his conclusion. We talked of it many times together… Call it religion or what you like, Mr. Edison believed that the universe was alive and that it was responsive to man’s deep necessity. It was an intelligent and hopeful religion if there ever was one. Mr. Edison went away expecting light, not darkness. - View Quote Details on He felt there was a central processing core of life…
• Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp. There is nothing false, little that is subtle, and an impressive lack of the negative in Paine. He literally cried to his reader for a comprehending hour, and then filled that hour with such sagacious reasoning as we find surpassed nowhere else in American letters — seldom in any school of writing. - View Quote Details on Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would…
• If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is the bond lets money brokers collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%, where as the currency pays nobody but those who contribute directly in some useful way.
  It is absurd to say our country can issue $30 million in bonds and not $30 million in currency. Both are promises to pay, but one promise fattens the userers and the other helps the people. - View Quote Details on If our nation can issue a dollar bond, it can…
• If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. - View Quote Details on If we did all the things we are capable of…
• During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem…. I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament…. Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon. - View Quote Details on During all those years of experimentation and research, I never…
• Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - View Quote Details on Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed…
• There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. - View Quote Details on There is no expedient to which a man will not…
• We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide…. I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. - View Quote Details on We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around…
• The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No man who helped to lay the foundations of our liberty — who stepped forth as the champion of so difficult a cause — can be permanently obscured by such attacks. Tom Paine should be read by his countrymen. I commend his fame to their hands. - View Quote Details on The memory of Tom Paine will outlive all this. No…
• So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk. - View Quote Details on So far as the religion of the day is concerned,…
• Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. - View Quote Details on Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to…
• I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe. - View Quote Details on I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading…
• Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in the United States because he is unknown to the average citizen. Perhaps I might say right here that this is a national loss and a deplorable lack of understanding concerning the man who first proposed and first wrote those impressive words, ‘the United States of America.’ But it is hardly strange. Paine’s teachings have been debarred from schools everywhere and his views of life misrepresented until his memory is hidden in shadows, or he is looked upon as of unsound mind.
  We never had a sounder intelligence in this Republic. He was the equal of Washington in making American liberty possible. Where Washington performed Paine devised and wrote. The deeds of one in the Weld were matched by the deeds of the other with his pen. - View Quote Details on Tom Paine has almost no influence on present-day thinking in…

About Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-02-11 – 1931-10-18 ) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life worldwide into the 21st century.

• In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought to resist it. Be a plain topographer if you possibly can; if Nature meant you to be anything else, she will force you to it; but never try to be a prophet. - View Quote Details on In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it…
• How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty. - View Quote Details on How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of…
• Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. - View Quote Details on Fine art is that in which the hand, the head,…
• A monk of La Trappe, a French soldier of the Imperial Guard, and a thriving mill-owner, supposing each a type, and no more than a type, of his class, are all interesting specimens of humanity, but narrow ones, — so narrow that even all the three together would not make up a perfect man. - View Quote Details on A monk of La Trappe, a French soldier of the…
• The power which causes the several portions of the plant to help each other, we call life. Much more is this so in an animal. We may take away the branch of a tree without much harm to it; but not the animal’s limb. Thus, intensity of life is also intensity of helpfulness — completeness of depending of each part on all the rest. The ceasing of this help is what we call corruption; and in proportion to the perfectness of the help, is the dreadfulness of the loss. The more intense the life has been, the more terrible is its corruption. - View Quote Details on The power which causes the several portions of the plant…
• There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting every line you draw, Is it right or wrong? If right, it most assuredly is not a “free” line, but an intensely continent, restrained and considered line; and the action of the hand in laying it is just as decisive, and just as “free” as the hand of a first-rate surgeon in a critical incision. - View Quote Details on There is but one question ultimately to be asked respecting…
• The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable to the love of praise, as its greatest catastrophes to the love of pleasure. - View Quote Details on The greatest efforts of the race have always been traceable…
• When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece. - View Quote Details on When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
• Do not seek pleasure everywhere but always be ready to find it. - View Quote Details on Do not seek pleasure everywhere but always be ready to…
• You must either make a tool of the creature, or a man of him. You cannot make both. Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions. If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them. All the energy of their spirits must be given to make cogs and compasses of themselves….On the other hand, if you will make a man of the working creature, you cannot make him a tool. Let him but begin to imagine, to think, to try to do anything worth doing; and the engine-turned precision is lost at once. Out come all his roughness, all his dulness, all his incapability; shame upon shame, failure upon failure, pause after pause: but out comes the whole majesty of him also; and we know the height of it only when we see the clouds settling upon him. - View Quote Details on You must either make a tool of the creature, or…
• He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. - View Quote Details on He who has the truth at his heart need never…
• It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature. - View Quote Details on It is not possible to find a landscape, which if…
• Suppose any person to be put in possession of a large estate of fruitful land, with rich beds of gold in its gravel; countless herds of cattle in its pastures; houses, and gardens, and storehouses full of useful stores; but suppose, after all, that he could get no servants? In order that he may be able to have servants, some one in his neighbourhood must be poor, and in want of his gold — or his corn. Assume that no one is in want of either, and that no servants are to be had. He must, therefore, bake his own bread, make his own clothes, plough his own ground, and shepherd his own flocks. His gold will be as useful to him as any other yellow pebbles on his estate. His stores must rot, for he cannot consume them. He can eat no more than another man could eat, and wear no more than another man could wear. He must lead a life of severe and common labour to procure even ordinary comforts; he will be ultimately unable to keep either houses in repair, or fields in cultivation; and forced to content himself with a poor man’s portion of cottage and garden, in the midst of a desert of waste land, trampled by wild cattle, and encumbered by ruins of palaces, which he will hardly mock at himself by calling “his own.” - View Quote Details on Suppose any person to be put in possession of a…
• All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the “Pathetic Fallacy.” - View Quote Details on All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in…
• The truth of infinite value that he teaches is realism — the doctrine that all truth and beauty are to be attained by a humble and faithful study of nature, and not by substituting vague forms, bred by imagination on the mists of feeling, in place of definite, substantial reality. The thorough acceptance of this doctrine would remould our life; and he who teaches its application to any one department of human activity with such power as Mr Ruskin’s, is a prophet for his generation. - View Quote Details on The truth of infinite value that he teaches is realism…
• An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind. - View Quote Details on An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.
• Human work must be done thoroughly and honourably because we are now men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or ever were slugs, being practically no matter. - View Quote Details on Human work must be done thoroughly and honourably because we…
• We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled the earth: — the most cruel in proportion to their sensibility, — the most unwise in proportion to their science. No people, understanding pain, ever inflicted so much: no people, understanding facts, ever acted on them so little. - View Quote Details on We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel,…
• It is the glistening and softly spoken lie; the amiable fallacy; the patriotic lie of the historian, the provident lie of the politician, the zealous lie of the partisan, the merciful lie of the friend, and the careless lie of each man to himself, that cast that black mystery over humanity, through which we thank any man who pierces, as we would thank one who dug a well in a desert. - View Quote Details on It is the glistening and softly spoken lie; the amiable…
• What do you suppose makes all men look back to the time of childhood with so much regret (if their childhood has been, in any moderate degree, healthy or peaceful)? That rich charm, which the least possession had for us, was in consequence of the poorness of our treasures. - View Quote Details on What do you suppose makes all men look back to…
• Of all the bête, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I ever saw on a human stage, that thing last night beat — as far as the acting and story went — and of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, tuneless and scrannelpipiest — tongs and boniest — doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliness of, that eternity of nothing was the deadliest, so far as the sound went. I never was so relieved, so far as I can remember in my life, by the stopping of any sound — not excepting railway whistles — as I was by the cessation of the cobbler’s bellowing. - View Quote Details on Of all the bête, clumsy, blundering, boggling, baboon-blooded stuff I…
• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - View Quote Details on In general, pride is at the bottom of all great…
• Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base. Sorrow without labour is base. Joy without labour is base. - View Quote Details on Labour without joy is base. Labour without sorrow is base…
• In all base schools of art, the craftsman is dependent for his bread on originality; that is to say, on finding in himself some fragment of isolated faculty, by which his work may be distinct from that of other men. We are ready enough to take delight in our little doings, without any such stimulus; — what must be the effect of the popular applause which continually suggests that the little thing we can separately do is as excellent as it is singular; and what the effect of the bribe, held out to us through the whole of life, to produce — it being also in our peril not to produce — something different from the work of our neighbors? - View Quote Details on In all base schools of art, the craftsman is dependent…
• The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions. - View Quote Details on The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances,…
• What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. - View Quote Details on What we think, or what we know, or what we…
• I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface. - View Quote Details on I do not believe that ever any building was truly…
• In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the quieter your manner. - View Quote Details on In painting as in eloquence, the greater your strength, the…
• I cannot therefore claim much book knowledge. However, I believe I have not lost much because of this enforced restraint. On the contrary, the limited reading may be said to have enabled me thoroughly to digest what I did read. Of these books, the one that brought about an instantaneous and practical transformation in my life was Unto This Last. I translated it later into Gujarati, entitling it Sarvodaya (the welfare of all). I believe that I discovered some of my deepest convictions reflected in this great book of Ruskin, and that is why it so captured me and made me transform my life. A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human breast. Poets do not influence all alike, for everyone is not evolved in a equal measure. The teaching of Unto This Last I understood to be:1. That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all.
  2. That a lawyer’s work has the same value as the barber’s inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work.
  3. That a life of labour, i.e., the life of the tiller of the soil and the handicraftsman is the life worth living.The first of these I knew. The second I had dimly realized. The third had never occurred to me. Unto This Last made it as clear as daylight for me that the second and the third were contained in the first. I arose with the dawn, ready to reduce these principles to practice. - View Quote Details on I cannot therefore claim much book knowledge. However, I believe…
• He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas. - View Quote Details on He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the…
• The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. - View Quote Details on The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what…
• And with respect to the mode in which these general principles affect the secure possession of property, so far am I from invalidating such security, that the whole gist of these papers will be found ultimately to aim at an extension in its range; and whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor. - View Quote Details on And with respect to the mode in which these general…
• Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night. - View Quote Details on Your honesty is not to be based either on religion…
• You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm — we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish — ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame. - View Quote Details on You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth…
• Ruskin’s special gift was the feeling for beauty, in nature as in art. It was in Beauty that his nature led him to seek reality, and his entirely religious life received from it an entirely aesthetic use. But this Beauty to which he thus happened to dedicate his life was not conceived by him as an object of enjoyment made to charm, but as a reality infinitely more important than life, for which he would have given his own life. From this, as you will see, the whole aesthetic system of Ruskin follows. First, you will understand that the years when he became acquainted with a new school of architecture or of painting were the principal landmarks in the development of his ethics. He would speak of the years when Gothic art presented itself to him with the same gravity, the same emotional nostalgia, the same serenity with which a Christian speaks of the day the truth was revealed to him. - View Quote Details on Ruskin’s special gift was the feeling for beauty, in nature…
• Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze, but do not use golden ploughshares, nor bind ledgers in enamel. - View Quote Details on Work first and then rest. Work first, and then gaze,…
• As an artist in prose he is one of the most miraculous products of the extremely poetical genius of England. The length of a Ruskin sentence is like that length in the long arrow that was boasted of by the drawers of the bow. He draws, not a cloth-yard shaft but a long lance to his ear: he shoots a spear. But the whole goes light as a bird and straight as a bullet. - View Quote Details on As an artist in prose he is one of the…
• The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, — either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one. - View Quote Details on The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either…
• The point and stab of his challenge still really stands and sticks, like a dagger in a dead man. - View Quote Details on The point and stab of his challenge still really stands…
• The word “Blue” does not mean the sensation caused by a gentian on the human eye; but it means the power of producing that sensation: and this power is always there, in the thing, whether we are there to experience it or not, and would remain there though there were not a man left on the face of the earth. - View Quote Details on The word “Blue” does not mean the sensation caused by…
• In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children. - View Quote Details on In great states, children are always trying to remain children,…
• There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others. - View Quote Details on There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its…
• The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. - View Quote Details on The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and…
• Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality. - View Quote Details on Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is…
• Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation in which they exist during their establishment; and, unjustly directed, they injure it yet more during their existence. But inequalities of wealth justly established, benefit the nation in the course of their establishment; and, nobly used, aid it yet more by their existence. - View Quote Details on Inequalities of wealth, unjustly established, have assuredly injured the nation…
• I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average proportion of the numbers of each is not to my advantage. - View Quote Details on I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by…
• You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance. - View Quote Details on You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled…

About John Ruskin

John Ruskin (1819-02-08 – 1900-01-20 ) was an English author, poet and artist, most famous for his work as art critic and social critic.

• I think that science would never have achieved much progress if it had always imagined unknown obstacles hidden round every corner. At least we may peer gingerly round the corner, and perhaps we shall find there is nothing very formidable after all. - View Quote Details on I think that science would never have achieved much progress…
• Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the abridged edition of the book of nature. - View Quote Details on Physics has in the main contented itself with studying the…
• Schrödinger ’s wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge — and a very good dodge too. - View Quote Details on Schrödinger ’s wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a…
• If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell’s equations — then so much the worse for Maxwell’s equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation — well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. - View Quote Details on If someone points out to you that your pet theory…
• Consciousness is not sharply defined, but fades into sub-consciousness; and beyond that we must postulate something indefinite but yet continuous with our mental nature. This I take it be the world-stuff. - View Quote Details on Consciousness is not sharply defined, but fades into sub-consciousness; and…
• The external world of physics has thus become a world of shadows. In removing our illusions we have removed the substance, for indeed we have seen that substance is one of the greatest of our illusions. - View Quote Details on The external world of physics has thus become a world…
• Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo. - View Quote Details on Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
• There once was a brainy baboon,
  Who always breathed down a bassoon,
  For he said, “It appears
  That in billions of years
  I shall certainly hit on a tune”. - View Quote Details on There once was a brainy baboon,
  Who always breathed down a…
• The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time. But we must presume that in some other way or aspect it can be differentiated into parts. Only here and there does it arise to the level of consciousness, but from such islands proceeds all knowledge. The latter includes our knowledge of the physical world. - View Quote Details on The mind-stuff is not spread in space and time. But…
• It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the view that the substratum of everything is of mental character. But no one can deny that mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience, and all else is remote inference — inference either intuitive or deliberate. - View Quote Details on It is difficult for the matter-of-fact physicist to accept the…
• At terrestrial temperatures matter has complex properties which are likely to prove most difficult to unravel; but it is reasonable to hope that in the not too distant future we shall be competent to understand so simple a thing as a star. - View Quote Details on At terrestrial temperatures matter has complex properties which are likely…
• Motion with respect to the universal ocean of aether eludes us. We say, “Let V be the velocity of a body through the aether”, and form the various electromagnetic equations in which V is scattered liberally. Then we insert the observed values, and try to eliminate everything which is unknown except V. The solution goes on famously; but just as we have got rid of all the other unknowns, behold! V disappears as well, and we are left with the indisputable but irritating conclusion — - View Quote Details on Motion with respect to the universal ocean of aether eludes…
• In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance of the drama of familiar life. The shadow of my elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper. It is all symbolic, and as a symbol the physicist leaves it. Then comes the alchemist Mind who transmutes the symbols. The sparsely spread nuclei of electric force become a tangible solid; their restless agitation becomes the warmth of summer; the octave of aethereal vibrations becomes a gorgeous rainbow. Nor does the alchemy stop here. In the transmuted world new significances arise which are scarcely to be traced in the world of symbols; so that it becomes a world of beauty and purpose — and, alas, suffering and evil.
  The frank realisation that physical science is concerned with a world of shadows is one of the most significant of recent advances. - View Quote Details on In the world of physics we watch a shadowgraph performance…
• The mathematics is not there till we put it there. - View Quote Details on The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
• It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory. - View Quote Details on It is also a good rule not to put overmuch…
• Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. - View Quote Details on Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it…
• We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own. - View Quote Details on We have found a strange footprint on the shores of…
• The universe is of the nature of a thought or sensation in a universal Mind… To put the conclusion crudely — the stuff of the world is mind-stuff. As is often the way with crude statements, I shall have to explain that by “mind” I do not exactly mean mind and by “stuff” I do not at all mean stuff. Still that is about as near as we can get to the idea in a simple phrase. The mind-stuff of the world is something more general than our individual conscious minds; but we may think of its nature as not altogether foreign to feelings in our consciousness… Having granted this, the mental activity of the part of world constituting ourselves occasions no great surprise; it is known to us by direct self-knowledge, and we do not explain it away as something other than we know it to be — or rather, it knows itself to be. - View Quote Details on The universe is of the nature of a thought or…
• Never mind what two tons refers to. What is it? How has it entered in so definite a way into our exprerience? Two tons is the reading of the pointer when the elephant was placed on a weighing machine. Let us pass on…. And so we see that the poetry fades out of the problem, and by the time the serious application of exact science begins we are left only with pointer readings. - View Quote Details on Never mind what two tons refers to. What is it?…

About Arthur Stanley Eddington

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM (28 December, 1882 – 22 November, 1944 ) was Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. He was arguably the most important astrophysicist of the early 20th century, and was also a successful populariser. He became world-famous in 1919, when his observations of the bending of starlight near the eclipsed sun proved the correctness of Albert Einstein ’s General Theory of Relativity. .

• Wait, I wasn’t readyyyyy! - View Quote Details on Wait, I wasn’t readyyyyy!
• Walk it off. Walk it off. - View Quote Details on Walk it off. Walk it off.
• “WHAT’S GOING OOOOOOON?!’ - View Quote Details on “WHAT’S GOING OOOOOOON?!’
• My pancreas. - View Quote Details on My pancreas.
• Belly flop. - View Quote Details on Belly flop.
• Thanks for the help, buddy. - View Quote Details on Thanks for the help, buddy.
• Need to work on my landing. - View Quote Details on Need to work on my landing.
• BLAST OOOOOFF! - View Quote Details on BLAST OOOOOFF!
• Wheee! - View Quote Details on Wheee!
• I think I’m getting good at this. - View Quote Details on I think I’m getting good at this.
• Do I get frequent bear miles for this? - View Quote Details on Do I get frequent bear miles for this?
• GERONIMO! - View Quote Details on GERONIMO!
• Can we stop by the drive-through? - View Quote Details on Can we stop by the drive-through?
• OUT OF THE WAAAAY! - View Quote Details on OUT OF THE WAAAAY!
• Why is the ground so hard? - View Quote Details on Why is the ground so hard?
• This sure beats walking. - View Quote Details on This sure beats walking.
• I’m a butterfly! - View Quote Details on I’m a butterfly!
• I can fly! - View Quote Details on I can fly!
• Are we there yet? Are we there yet? - View Quote Details on Are we there yet? Are we there yet?

About Open Season (video game)

Open Season is a video game based on the film of the same name. The Nintendo DS version supports the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.

• La virtud es cosa de veras, todo lo demás de burlas. La capacidad y grandeza se ha de medir por la virtud, no por la fortuna. Ella sola se basta a sí misma. Vivo el hombre, le haze amable; y muerto, memorable. - View Quote Details on La virtud es cosa de veras, todo lo demás de…
• Unos principios de crédito sirven de despertar la curiosidad, no de empeñar el objecto. Mejor sale quando la realidad excede al concepto y es más de lo que se creyó. Faltará esta regla en lo malo, pues le ayuda la mesma exageración; desmiéntela con aplauso, y aun llega a parecer tolerable lo que se temió extremo de ruin. - View Quote Details on Unos principios de crédito sirven de despertar la curiosidad, no…
• El que no se hallare con ánimo de sufrir apele al retiro de sí mismo, si es que aun a sí mismo se ha de poder tolerar. - View Quote Details on El que no se hallare con ánimo de sufrir apele…
• Adelántase más la imaginación que la vista, y el engaño, que entra de ordinario por el oído, viene a salir por los ojos. - View Quote Details on Adelántase más la imaginación que la vista, y el engaño,…
• La presteza es madre de la dicha. - View Quote Details on La presteza es madre de la dicha.
• Saberlos conservar es más que el hazerlos amigos. - View Quote Details on Saberlos conservar es más que el hazerlos amigos.
• El encarecer es ramo de mentir. - View Quote Details on El encarecer es ramo de mentir.
• Confiar de los amigos hoy como enemigos mañana. - View Quote Details on Confiar de los amigos hoy como enemigos mañana.
• Cásanse algunos con la primera información, de suerte que las demás son concubinas, y como se adelanta siempre la mentira, no queda lugar después para la verdad. - View Quote Details on Cásanse algunos con la primera información, de suerte que las…
• La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se quedan: aquélla en quien la usa, ésta en quien la haze. - View Quote Details on La galantería y la honra tienen esta ventaja, que se…
• Quanto que el no creer es indicio del mentir; porque el mentiroso tiene dos males, que ni cree ni es creído. - View Quote Details on Quanto que el no creer es indicio del mentir; porque…
• Todos los que hazen del hazendado en el empleo dan indicio de que no lo merecían. - View Quote Details on Todos los que hazen del hazendado en el empleo dan…
• Harto presto, si bien. - View Quote Details on Harto presto, si bien.
• Pero el que no pudiere alcançar a tener la sabiduría en servidumbre, lógrela en familiaridad. - View Quote Details on Pero el que no pudiere alcançar a tener la sabiduría…
• Como los ignorantes no se conocen, tampoco buscan lo que les falta. Serían sabios algunos si no creyessen que lo son. - View Quote Details on Como los ignorantes no se conocen, tampoco buscan lo que…
• Única regla de agradar: coger el apetito picado con el hambre con que quedó. - View Quote Details on Única regla de agradar: coger el apetito picado con el…
• No vaya por generalidades en el vivir, si ya no fuere en favor de la virtud, ni intime leyes precisas al querer, que avrá de bever mañana del agua que desprecia hoi. - View Quote Details on No vaya por generalidades en el vivir, si ya no…

About Baltasar Gracián

Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-01-08 – 1658-12-06 ), most widely known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit author regarded as one of the most accomplished prose stylists of the Baroque era.

• We’re not going to deport 12 million people, so let’s stop this fiction. - View Quote Details on We’re not going to deport 12 million people, so let’s…
• Although my plans for the future haven’t changed, I believe this brings my affiliation into alignment with how I have led and will continue to lead our city. - View Quote Details on Although my plans for the future haven’t changed, I believe…
• The federal poverty measurement… hasn’t been changed since it was first introduced in 1964…. [T]he formula [doesn't] indicate that we’ve made any gains in fighting poverty…. [Yet] we have made real progress in fighting poverty and raising living standards since the 70s…. The poverty formula… is bankrupt. - View Quote Details on The federal poverty measurement… hasn’t been changed since it was…
• If it wasn’t for O’Flanagan’s Pub on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, I don’t know where I would have spent my Friday nights as a young man. - View Quote Details on If it wasn’t for O’Flanagan’s Pub on Manhattan’s Upper East…
• It’s scary in this country, it’s probably because of our bad educational system, but the percentage of people that believe in Creationalism is really scary for a country that’s going to have to compete in the world where science and medicine require a better understanding. - View Quote Details on It’s scary in this country, it’s probably because of our…
• Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses. But the statistics show that 1 percent of dealers sell more than half of all illegal guns. Why isn’t the federal government going after them? Here’s one reason: unlike mayors, members of Congress don’t get a phone call in the middle of the night when a cop is shot and killed. They don’t deliver the eulogies. - View Quote Details on Most gun dealers follow the law and run honest businesses…
• What you’ve got to do is be honest. Say what you believe. Give it to them straight. Just don’t wuss out. - View Quote Details on What you’ve got to do is be honest. Say what…
• On Rudy Giuliani’s evolving opinion on Roe v. Wade: I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven’t had any moral compass, who’ve just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they’re losers. - View Quote Details on On Rudy Giuliani’s evolving opinion on Roe v. Wade: I…
• As the city continues to grow, the costs of congestion – to our health, to our environment, and to our economy – are only going to get worse. The question is not whether we want to pay but how do we want to pay. With an increased asthma rate? With more greenhouse gases? Wasted time? Lost business? And higher prices? Or, do we charge a modest fee to encourage more people to take mass transit? - View Quote Details on As the city continues to grow, the costs of congestion…
• There will be ups, there will be downs, there will be sideways. I can just tell you I have been hired, I have been fired, I have been lauded, I have been vilified. I’ve said some of the most brilliant things that just by accident appeared on my tongue, and I’ve said some of the dumbest things that you could imagine. But each day - even the day that I knew I was going to be fired - I looked forward to because I’ve always believed that tomorrow was going to be the best day of my life. - View Quote Details on There will be ups, there will be downs, there will…
• In response to criticism from Democratic mayoral candidates for appearing at a 2004 event for the Independence Party: “To all the critics who are rushing out to criticize me tonight, criticize me for being here tonight, let me point out that this night is about the one million New Yorkers who are denied the most basic rights by the two major political parties.” - View Quote Details on In response to criticism from Democratic mayoral candidates for appearing…
• I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I’m doing my best to make that case in Washington. - View Quote Details on I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in…
• On his performance in college: “I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.” - View Quote Details on On his performance in college: “I was the one of…
• My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a $25 check to the NAACP. When I asked him why, he said discrimination against anyone is discrimination against us all. And I never forgot that. Indeed, his philanthropy was a gift, not just to that organization, but to me. - View Quote Details on My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000…
• Even though New York is the safest big city in the nation, there are still far too many illegal guns on our streets. Nearly all of them arrive from out of state – and most are sold by a small group of rogue gun dealers who refuse to obey federal laws. - View Quote Details on Even though New York is the safest big city in…
• I believe we can turn around our country’s current, wrong-headed course, if we start basing our actions on ideas, shared values, and a commitment to solve problems without regard for party. - View Quote Details on I believe we can turn around our country’s current, wrong-headed…
• “Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may try to deny us what is rightfully ours. But they will fail. And I promise you, as long as I am mayor, I will never back away from fighting any opponent — or confronting any obstacle — that would prevent our people from achieving all of their dreams in Our New York.” - View Quote Details on “Others may doubt us. They may criticize us. They may…
• Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody’s got to pay for them so they’re a necessary evil. - View Quote Details on Taxes are not good things, but if you want services,…
• Most people won’t have opportunity to do full-time service, but those lucky enough to have monetary wealth or some spare time really can make an enormous difference. As someone who’s now in the public sector, and is seeing up-close-and-personal the real impact of what we do and what we give, I can tell you: every dollar and every volunteer help, in more ways than you can count. - View Quote Details on Most people won’t have opportunity to do full-time service, but…
• Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest of us don’t have to pay tribute. - View Quote Details on Partisanship may be King in Washington – but the rest…
• Today, you’re a piranha if you are seen having coffee with somebody from the other party in many cases. - View Quote Details on Today, you’re a piranha if you are seen having coffee…
• In New York City, a lot of people think ‘the great outdoors’ is the area between your front door and a taxi cab. - View Quote Details on In New York City, a lot of people think ‘the…
• We’ve shown the world that New York can never be defeated, because of its dynamic and diverse population and because it embodies the spirit of enterprise and the love of liberty. And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you. - View Quote Details on We’ve shown the world that New York can never be…
• “Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come back. Nobody could ever enforce that. Nobody in their right mind would ever try to do it.” - View Quote Details on “Nobody’s going to go home for a year and come…
• The press really is not doing its job of holding [the candidates'] feet to the fire…. The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress? - View Quote Details on The press really is not doing its job of holding…
• Today, we are seeing hundreds of years of scientific discovery being challenged by people who simply disregard facts that don’t happen to agree with their agendas. Some call it “pseudo-science,” others call it “faith-based science,” but when you notice where this negligence tends to take place, you might as well call it “political science.” - View Quote Details on Today, we are seeing hundreds of years of scientific discovery…
• If they don’t act, we will. Shame on them but we cannot sit around and watch our environment deteriorate and put this world in jeopardy. We are willing to stand up, we think it is one of the seminal issues of our time. - View Quote Details on If they don’t act, we will. Shame on them but…
• Nobody’s going to elect me president of the United States. - View Quote Details on Nobody’s going to elect me president of the United States.
• If you want to get the best people to run for office, we’ve got to make the rules easier, and simpler, and more understandable to get on the ballot. - View Quote Details on If you want to get the best people to run…

About Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg (born 14 February 1942 ) was elected Mayor of New York City in 2001. He ran for re-election in 2005 and won a second term. He is frequently mentioned as an independent candidate in the 2008 Presidential Election.

• Belle Rosen: You see, Mr. Scott? In the water, I’m a very skinny lady. - View Quote Details on Belle Rosen: You see, Mr. Scott? In the water, I’m…
• Linda Rogo: I’m going next. So if old fat ass gets stuck in there, I won’t get stuck behind her. - View Quote Details on Linda Rogo: I’m going next. So if old fat ass…
• Roddy McDowall : Acres - View Quote Details on Roddy McDowall : Acres
• Ernest Borgnine : Det. Lt. Mike Rogo - View Quote Details on Ernest Borgnine : Det. Lt. Mike Rogo
• Gene Hackman : Rev. Frank Scott - View Quote Details on Gene Hackman : Rev. Frank Scott
• Eric Shea : Robin Shelby - View Quote Details on Eric Shea : Robin Shelby
• Carol Lynley : Nonnie Parry - View Quote Details on Carol Lynley : Nonnie Parry
• Jack Albertson : Manny Rosen - View Quote Details on Jack Albertson : Manny Rosen
• Arthur O’Connell : Chaplain John - View Quote Details on Arthur O’Connell : Chaplain John
• So what resolution should we make for the new year? It’s to let God know that you have the guts and the will to do it alone. Resolve to fight for yourselves, and for others, for those you love. And that part of God within you will be fighting with you all the way. - View Quote Details on So what resolution should we make for the new year?…
• Mike Rogo: You! Preacher! You lyin’, murderin’ son of a bitch! I started to believe in your promises, that we had a chance. What chance? You took from me the only thing I ever loved in the whole world, my Linda. - View Quote Details on Mike Rogo: You! Preacher! You lyin’, murderin’ son of a…
• Shelley Winters : Belle Rosen - View Quote Details on Shelley Winters : Belle Rosen
• Please, God, not this woman. Not this woman. - View Quote Details on Please, God, not this woman. Not this woman.
• Pamela Sue Martin : Susan Shelby - View Quote Details on Pamela Sue Martin : Susan Shelby
• Leslie Nielsen : Captain Harrison - View Quote Details on Leslie Nielsen : Captain Harrison
• Stella Stevens : Linda Rogo - View Quote Details on Stella Stevens : Linda Rogo
• [looking up to God] What more do you want of us? We’ve come all this way, no thanks to you. We did on our own no help from you. We did ask you to fight for us but damn it, don’t fight against us! Leave us alone! How many more sacrifices? How much more blood? How many more lives? Belle wasn’t enough. Acres wasn’t. Now this girl! You want another life? Then take me! [turns to face the suriviors] You can make it, keep going! Rogo, get them through! - View Quote Details on [looking up to God] What more do you want of…

About The Poseidon Adventure

The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 action/adventure/disaster film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner by a tidal wave and the desperate struggle of a handful of survivors to journey up to the bottom of the hull of the liner before it sinks. Directed by Ronald Neame. Screenplay written by Wendell Mayes and Stirling Silliphant. Hell, upside down. Taglines .

The Poseidon Adventure Taglines

• Combining the talents of fifteen Academy Award Winners.
• At midnight on New Year’s Day the S.S. Poseidon was struck by a 90-foot tidal wave and capsized.
• Who will survive in one of the greatest escape adventures ever!
• Hell, upside down.

• I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because if I liked it I’d eat it, and I just hate it. - View Quote Details on I don’t like spinach, and I’m glad I don’t, because…
• Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today. - View Quote Details on Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything…
• In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born. - View Quote Details on In the great flood of human life that is spawned…
• It is often said that the accused should be given an immediate trial; that this and subsequent proceedings should not be hindered by delay; that the uncertainties of punishment furnish the criminal with the hope of escape and therefore do not give the community the benefit of the terror that comes with the certainty of punishment that could prevent crime. I can see no basis in logic or experience for this suggestion. It is based on the theory that punishment is not only a deterrent to crime, but the main deterrent. It comes from the idea that the criminal is distinct from the rest of mankind, that vengeance should be sure and speedy and that then crime would be prevented. If this were true and the only consideration to prevent crime, then the old torture chamber and the ancient prison with all its hopelessness and horror should be restored. Logic, humanity and experience would protest against this. If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man. I am quite certain that the more the question of crime and its treatment is studied the less faith men have in punishment. - View Quote Details on It is often said that the accused should be given…
• As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. - View Quote Details on As long as the world shall last, there will be…
• Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.
  Can anyone call this scheme of creation and damnation moral? It defies every principle of morality, as man conceives morality. Can anyone believe today that the whole world was destroyed by flood, save only Noah and his family and a male and female of each species of animal that entered the Ark? There are almost a million species of insects alone. How did Noah match these up and make sure of getting male and female to reproduce life in the world after the flood had spent its force? And why should all the lower animals have been destroyed? Were they included in the sinning of man? This is a story which could not beguile a fairly bright child of five years of age today. - View Quote Details on Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born…
• Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream. The young look forth across the sea to a mirage of fairylands filled with hidden treasures; the aged turn to the fading past, and through the mist and haze that veils once familiar scenes, bygone events assume weird and fanciful proportions. - View Quote Details on Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the…
• The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. - View Quote Details on The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against…
• No doubt there is much immature talking and hasty writing and will always be where liberty of speech and press prevails. The political, religious, and social views of any age and even of the most radical members of society, were born, long before their time. Those who invented the alphabet and the printing press are indirectly responsible for much of the violence of a changing social state; but in the same way, they are responsible for the progress of the world, for the enlightenment, for the civilization, and for all that makes the present better than the past. - View Quote Details on No doubt there is much immature talking and hasty writing…
• It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. - View Quote Details on It is not the strongest of the species that survives,…
• When Voltaire was born there was really but one church which, of course, was ignorant, tyrannical and barbarous in the extreme. All creeds are alike, and whenever there is but one, and the rulers honestly believe in that one, they are bound to be ignorant, barbarous and cruel. All sorts of heresies were punishable by death. If anyone dared to write a pamphlet or book that questioned any part of the accepted faith, the book was at once consigned to flames and the author was lucky if he did not meet the same fate. Religion was not maintained by the precepts of the priest, but by the prison, the torture chamber and the fagot. Everyone believed; no one questioned. The religious creeds, while strict and barbarous, did not interfere with the personal conduct of any of the rulers. They were left free to act as they pleased, so long as they professed to believe in the prevailing faith. - View Quote Details on When Voltaire was born there was really but one church…
• Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. - View Quote Details on Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties…
• The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom. - View Quote Details on The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom…
• When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I’m beginning to believe it. - View Quote Details on When I was a boy I was told that anybody…
• True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else. - View Quote Details on True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than…
• Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. - View Quote Details on Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
• Much of his work he did while confined to his bed. He was always an invalid, always obliged to take great care of himself, living constantly with death just before him, never idle a moment for fear his work would not be done. Probably no man ever lived who assailed the Church and the State with the same wit and keenness that was always at Voltaire’s command; and yet in spite of this he managed to live comfortably, accumulate riches and die in peace. - View Quote Details on Much of his work he did while confined to his…
• History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with history. - View Quote Details on History repeats itself. That’s one of the things wrong with…
• I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means. - View Quote Details on I do not consider it an insult, but rather a…
• The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice. - View Quote Details on The truth is always modern and there never comes a…
• There are two things that kill a genius — a fatal disease and contentment. When a man is contented he goes to sleep. Voltaire had no chance to be contented, and so he wrote eternally and unceasingly, more than any other man in the history of the world. - View Quote Details on There are two things that kill a genius — a…
• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood. - View Quote Details on I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have…
• I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man — public opinion. - View Quote Details on I had grown tired of standing in the lean and…
• The trouble with law is lawyers. - View Quote Details on The trouble with law is lawyers.
• With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men. - View Quote Details on With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity…
• One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature. - View Quote Details on One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of…
• Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I’m not worried about my soul. - View Quote Details on Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were…
• What of the tale of Balaam’s ass speaking to him, probably in Hebrew? Is it true, or is it a fable? Many asses have spoken, and doubtless some in Hebrew, but they have not been that breed of asses. Is salvation to depend on a belief in a monstrosity like this? - View Quote Details on What of the tale of Balaam’s ass speaking to him,…
• There is no such thing as justice — in or out of court. - View Quote Details on There is no such thing as justice — in or…
• To say that God made the universe gives us no explanation of the beginnings of things. If we are told that God made the universe, the question immediately arises: Who made God? Did he always exist, or was there some power back of that? Did he create matter out of nothing, or is his existence coextensive with matter? The problem is still there. What is the origin of it all? If, on the other hand, one says that the universe was not made by God, that it always existed, he has the same difficulty to confront. To say that the universe was here last year, or millions of years ago, does not explain its origin. This is still a mystery. As to the question of the origin of things, man can only wonder and doubt and guess. - View Quote Details on To say that God made the universe gives us no…
• I am an agnostic as to the question of God. I think that it is impossible for the human mind to believe in an object or thing unless it can form a mental picture of such object or thing. Since man ceased to worship openly an anthropomorphic God and talked vaguely and not intelligently about some force in the universe, higher than man, that is responsible for the existence of man and the universe, he cannot be said to believe in God. One cannot believe in a force excepting as a force that pervades matter and is not an individual entity. To believe in a thing, an image of the thing must be stamped on the mind. If one is asked if he believes in such an animal as a camel, there immediately arises in his mind an image of the camel. This image has come from experience or knowledge of the animal gathered in some way or other. No such image comes, or can come, with the idea of a God who is described as a force. - View Quote Details on I am an agnostic as to the question of God…
• Voltaire was not the first or last man to convert a prison into a hall of fame. A prison is confining to the body, but whether it affects the mind, depends entirely upon the mind.
  It was while in prison that he changed his name from the one his father gave him — Arouet — to the one he has made famous throughout all time — Voltaire. He said, “I was very unlucky under my first name. I want to see if this one will succeed any better.” - View Quote Details on Voltaire was not the first or last man to convert…
• No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed. - View Quote Details on No other offense has ever been visited with such severe…
• There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action. - View Quote Details on There is no such crime as a crime of thought;…
• Had the modern professors of eugenics had power in France in 1694, they probably would not have permitted such a child to have been born. Their scientific knowledge would have shown conclusively that no person of value could have come from the union of his father and mother. In those days, nature had not been instructed by the professors of eugenics and so Voltaire was born. - View Quote Details on Had the modern professors of eugenics had power in France…
• Hell, that’s why they make erasers. - View Quote Details on Hell, that’s why they make erasers.
• The usual is always mediocre. When nature takes it into her head to make a man, she fits him with her own equipment and educates him in her own school. - View Quote Details on The usual is always mediocre. When nature takes it into…
• Even if you do learn to speak correct English, to whom are you going to speak it? - View Quote Details on Even if you do learn to speak correct English, to…

About Clarence Darrow

Clarence Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938 ) was an American lawyer, best known for having defended teenaged thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14 year old Bobby Franks (1924) and defending John T. Scopes in the so-called “Monkey” Trial (1925), opposing William Jennings Bryan. .

• The leading idea is, nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; the sham, in a large sense, is never successful; that in the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the state, pretension is nothing and power is everything. - View Quote Details on The leading idea is, nothing really succeeds which is not…
• Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. - View Quote Details on Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
• Honesty is the best policy. - View Quote Details on Honesty is the best policy.
• To be honest as this world goes is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. - View Quote Details on To be honest as this world goes is to be…
• “Honesty: The most important thing in life. Unless you really know how to fake it, you’ll never really make it.” - View Quote Details on “Honesty: The most important thing in life. Unless you really…
• The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint. - View Quote Details on The more honesty a man has, the less he affects…
• Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue. Honesty is hardly ever heard. And mostly what I need from you. - View Quote Details on Honesty is such a lonely word. Everyone is so untrue…
• When men cease to be faithful to their God, he who expects to find them so to each other will be much disappointed. - View Quote Details on When men cease to be faithful to their God, he…
• Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and never forget to have a penny, when all thy expenses are enumerated and paid: then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds. - View Quote Details on Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul, and…
• No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. - View Quote Details on No man has a good enough memory to make a…
• “Honesty is the best policy;” but he who acts on that principle is not an honest man. - View Quote Details on “Honesty is the best policy;” but he who acts on…
• An honest man’s the noblest work of God. - View Quote Details on An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
• To be a master of the truth, first be a slave to your conscience. - View Quote Details on To be a master of the truth, first be a…
• If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything. - View Quote Details on If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember…
• The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain. - View Quote Details on The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of…
• “If you act like an honest person, you won’t get very far like that.” - View Quote Details on “If you act like an honest person, you won’t get…
• We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. - View Quote Details on We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what…
• “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” - View Quote Details on “Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”
• No man is bound to be rich or great, no, nor to be wise; but every man is bound to be honest. - View Quote Details on No man is bound to be rich or great, no,…
• A half truth is a whole lie. - View Quote Details on A half truth is a whole lie.
• The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of his intentions as to be willing to open his bosom to the inspection of the world, is already in possession of one of the strongest pillars of a decided character. The course of such a man will be firm and steady, because he has nothing to fear from the world, and is sure of the approbation and support of Heaven. - View Quote Details on The man who is so conscious of the rectitude of…
• No legacy is so rich as honesty. - View Quote Details on No legacy is so rich as honesty.
• “What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming.” - View Quote Details on “What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must…
• But if he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, Sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons. - View Quote Details on But if he does really think that there is no…

About Honesty

Quotations about honesty.

• (the effort to abolish affirmative action) is led mostly by conscienceless politicians, publicity-seeking bigots, whites with individual gripes who find it easy to make trouble in a litigious society, and a handful of blacks who harbor doubts about their own intellectual merits. - View Quote Details on (the effort to abolish affirmative action) is led mostly by…
• We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home defense). We can do it by passing a law that says anyone found in possession of a handgun except a legitimate officer of the law goes to jail- period! - View Quote Details on We must reverse this psychology (of needing guns for home…
• Don’t count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court. - View Quote Details on Don’t count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk…
• A black friend of morbid wit said to me, ‘Doesn’t O.J. know that we can f*** ‘em now but we still can’t kill ‘em?’… - View Quote Details on A black friend of morbid wit said to me, ‘Doesn’t…
• I knew that the stories of the two murders would immediately grab the glands of millions of American white men, prejudicing them in ways they would never admit publicly…. (It) would enliven the insecurities of millions of white male psyches. The old college girl’s chant, “Once you go black you never go back!” surely would take on feverish new meaning. - View Quote Details on I knew that the stories of the two murders would…
• probably 95 percent of ‘white’ Americans have some ‘Negroid blood.’ - View Quote Details on probably 95 percent of ‘white’ Americans have some ‘Negroid blood.’
• David Brinkley: Suppose somebody was breaking into your house at night, and you didn’t have a gun. Wouldn’t you wish you had one?
  Sam Donaldson: No, I’d call the police immediately, I’d slam the doors, I’d cower under the bed, or in the closet…
  Brinkley: George?
  George Will: I’d call Carl Rowan. - View Quote Details on David Brinkley: Suppose somebody was breaking into your house at…
• Black people would in private say that Nicole was ‘white trash,’ using her blond hair, her big breasts, her teenage pussy to woo a famous, rich, middle-aged black man away from the black woman who had sustained and nurtured him through the toughest years of his life. - View Quote Details on Black people would in private say that Nicole was ‘white…
• The Federal courts… surrendered to racist mob psychology as cravenly as any law officer ever did in the Reconstruction South under pressure from a lynch mob. Suddenly, mass bigotry was more dominant in the so called halls of justice in 1995 than it had been in 1955. - View Quote Details on The Federal courts… surrendered to racist mob psychology as cravenly…
• for every Farrakhan who riles and poisons black America, there are twenty white bigots who seek to take us into organized murder and mayhem. - View Quote Details on for every Farrakhan who riles and poisons black America, there…
• (T)he upsurge of violent racism in armed groups in America involves more than the United States Army, Navy, and Marine Corps. It now includes every police force in any city and county in America, the National Guard, federal agencies, and even some private ‘protective’ groups. - View Quote Details on (T)he upsurge of violent racism in armed groups in America…
• Clarence Thomas is the best only at his ability to bootlick for Ronald Reagan and George Bush…They didn’t pick him because he was black. They picked him because he’s a black conservative. And the thing that bothers me about his appointment — if they had put David Duke on, I wouldn’t scream as much because they would look at David Duke and reject him for what he is. If you gave Clarence Thomas a little flour on his face, you’d think you had David Duke talking. - View Quote Details on Clarence Thomas is the best only at his ability to…
• (If America abandons affirmative action, the country will take a giant step towards race war because there are) armies of raging blacks and furious Hispanics who would go ballistic over effectuation of the proposed campaigns to roll back the meager gains that nonwhites have made in America during a cruel century. - View Quote Details on (If America abandons affirmative action, the country will take a…
• Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I inflaming a bunch of nuts?’, you know we’re going to have some more events (like the Oklahoma City bombing). I am absolutely certain the harsher rhetoric of the Gingriches and the Doles … creates a climate of violence in America. - View Quote Details on Unless Gingrich and Dole and the Republicans say, ‘Am I…
• (Ronald Reagan is) the President who is more responsible than any for the fact that white racism is both tolerated and even fashionable again in America. - View Quote Details on (Ronald Reagan is) the President who is more responsible than…
• Our country is wallowing in a miasma of political and class conflict, of greed and special interest, with regard to budget deficits, inflation and rising unemployment, the threats of both a bloody war and a devastating recession. How did we get into this mess? Because the press, during the 1980s committed one of the greatest crimes of the 20th century. The media took a dive, caved in, and did not tell the American people the price they would eventually pay for Reaganomics. - View Quote Details on Our country is wallowing in a miasma of political and…

About Carl Rowan

Carl Rowan (August 11, 1925 - September 23, 2000 ) columnist and former ambassador.

• First thing’s first. Immunity, back up for grabs. - View Quote Details on First thing’s first. Immunity, back up for grabs.
• We’re now bringing the members of our jury… - View Quote Details on We’re now bringing the members of our jury…
• Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode. - View Quote Details on Stay tuned for scenes from our next episode.
• Let’s get to today’s immunity challenge. - View Quote Details on Let’s get to today’s immunity challenge.
• Previously on… Survivor… - View Quote Details on Previously on… Survivor…
• Come on in, guys! - View Quote Details on Come on in, guys!
• Survivors ready… go! - View Quote Details on Survivors ready… go!
• 36 days ago… - View Quote Details on 36 days ago…
• The winner of (survivor season)… - View Quote Details on The winner of (survivor season)…
• Once the votes are read, the decision is final, the person voted out is asked to leave the tribal council area immediately. - View Quote Details on Once the votes are read, the decision is final, the…
• It is time to vote. - View Quote Details on It is time to vote.
• 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th/etc. person voted out of (survivor season)… - View Quote Details on 1st/2nd/3rd/4th/5th/etc. person voted out of (survivor season)…
• (tribe’s name), this is your first look at the new (other tribe’s name), (contestant’s name) voted out last night. - View Quote Details on (tribe’s name), this is your first look at the new…
• (amount of castaways left) are left. Who will be voted out tonight? - View Quote Details on (amount of castaways left) are left. Who will be voted…
• There are eight votes. it takes five to win, - View Quote Details on There are eight votes. it takes five to win,
• 39 days, (number of castaways) people, ONE… SURVIVOR! - View Quote Details on 39 days, (number of castaways) people, ONE… SURVIVOR!
• Want to know what we’re playing for? - View Quote Details on Want to know what we’re playing for?
• Worth playing for? - View Quote Details on Worth playing for?
• Time for you to go. - View Quote Details on Time for you to go.

About Survivor (TV show)

Survivor is a popular reality television program produced by many countries throughout the world. .

• No se puede vivir sin amar. - View Quote Details on No se puede vivir sin amar.
• There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e’s, the flying buttresses of d’s, the t’s like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word. - View Quote Details on There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the…
• There was something in the wild strength of this landscape, once a battlefield, that seemed to be shouting at him, a presence born of that strength whose cry his whole being recognized as familiar, caught and threw back into the wind, some youthful passage of courage and pride — the passionate, yet so nearly always hypocritical, affirmation of one’s soul perhaps, he thought, of the desire to be, to do, good, what was right. - View Quote Details on There was something in the wild strength of this landscape,…
• And yet, in these old women it was as if, through the various tragedies of Mexican history, pity, the impulse to approach, and terror, the impulse to escape (as one had learned at college), having replaced it, had finally been reconciled by prudence, the conviction it is better to stay where you are. - View Quote Details on And yet, in these old women it was as if,…
• What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning? - View Quote Details on What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in…
• And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell. - View Quote Details on And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as…
• I want your life filling and stirring me. I want your happiness beneath my heart and your sorrows in my eyes and your peace in the fingers of my hand. - View Quote Details on I want your life filling and stirring me. I want…
• God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. - View Quote Details on God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled…
• I wake to a darkness in which I must follow myself endlessly, hating the I who so eternally pursues and confronts me. If we could rise from our misery, seek each other once more, and find again the solace of each other’s lips and eyes. - View Quote Details on I wake to a darkness in which I must follow…
• How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying. - View Quote Details on How alike are the groans of love, to those of…
• How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him. - View Quote Details on How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will…
• But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time I can’t get drunk however much I drink. - View Quote Details on But my lord, Yvonne, surely you know by this time…
• The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico. - View Quote Details on The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all…
• For a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts. - View Quote Details on For a time they confronted each other like two mute…
• What is man but a little soul holding up a corpse? - View Quote Details on What is man but a little soul holding up a…

About Malcolm Lowry

Malcolm Lowry (1909-07-28 – 1957-06-26 ) was an English poet and novelist best known for his novel Under the Volcano.

• Once again the hopes of people of two nations are being smashed by weapons in the name of eliminating weapons. Let us abolish weapons of mass destruction at home. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a weapon of mass destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. - View Quote Details on Once again the hopes of people of two nations are…
• I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home. - View Quote Details on I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers…
• The administration, through senior Air Force officials, wants the U.S. to achieve military supremacy in outer space. Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion.A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars?Yesterday 28 Members of Congress signed on to H.R. 2420, a bill to stop the weaponization of space, urging the President to sign an international treaty to ban such weapons. If we work together towards creating peace on earth, we would not bring war to the high heavens.While some fantasize about being “masters of the universe,” there are 45 million Americans without health insurance. Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack. We are headed towards a $400 billion annual budget deficit, a $600 billion trade deficit, an $8 trillion national debt. The cost of the war in Iraq is over $200 billion. While we build new bases in Iraq, we close them in the United States.Earth to Washington, D.C. Earth to Washington, D.C. D.C., call home. - View Quote Details on The administration, through senior Air Force officials, wants the U.S…
• I think we have to get rid of nuclear weapons. The idea that somehow by having nuclear weapons you make the world a safer place is essentially insane. - View Quote Details on I think we have to get rid of nuclear weapons…
• You’re looking at a guy who believes he can beat a rigged game. - View Quote Details on You’re looking at a guy who believes he can beat…
• The PATRIOT Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all subject to government scrutiny.There used to be a time in this country when we were worried whether our young people knew how to read. Now some in our government are more worried that government agents be able to find out what people are reading. - View Quote Details on The PATRIOT Act allows Federal agents to look at public…
• Almost half of the bankruptcies in the United States are connected to an illness in the family, whether people had health insurance or not. Middle-class Americans, who had the misfortune of either experiencing a medical emergency themselves or watching a family member suffer, were then forced to face the daunting task of pulling themselves out of debt. Bankruptcy law has allowed them to start over. It has given hope. Now this new law will put people on their own. Illness or emergency creates medical bills. We are telling the people that they themselves are to blame. At the same time, we are removing protections that would stay an eviction, that would keep a roof over the head of a working family. We allow the credit industry to trick consumers into using subprime cards, with exorbitant interest rate hikes and fees. Then we hand those same consumers over to an unforgiving prison of debt, to be put on a rack of insolvency and squeezed dry by the credit card industry. We are protecting the profits of the credit card industry instead of protecting the economic future of the American people. Americans are left on their own. That’s what this Administration’s “Ownership Society” is all about — you’re on your own — and your ship is sinking. - View Quote Details on Almost half of the bankruptcies in the United States are…
• The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and our truth and when children carry within their hearts the torch of hope, they learn the darkness yields not only to man-made fire, but to starlight, to the rising sun, and to the light of the soul. - View Quote Details on The scriptures bid us to send forth our light and…
• I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands change. - View Quote Details on I hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth…
• I am running for President of the United States to enable the goddess of peace to encircle within her reach all the children of this country and all the children of the world. - View Quote Details on I am running for President of the United States to…
• He (George W. Bush ) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government’s purpose for any social and economic justice at all. - View Quote Details on He (George W. Bush ) is going in the wrong…
• I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position.Today we’re faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise — the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen. - View Quote Details on I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted…
• This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can’t tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans. - View Quote Details on This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic…
• The center has shifted in our politics. I’m really at the center. And all the other candidates are to the right of me. - View Quote Details on The center has shifted in our politics. I’m really at…
• With the capture of Saddam Hussein the Administration’s stated goal of removing him from power has been accomplished. Now the focus must be on ending the occupation. International law must be followed and Saddam Hussein must be held accountable for his actions.The United States must seize this moment and end the occupation of Iraq. The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring UN peacekeepers in, and bring US troops home. - View Quote Details on With the capture of Saddam Hussein the Administration’s stated goal…

About Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich (born 8 October, 1946 ) is an American politician who represents the 10th District of Ohio in the United States House of Representatives. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2004 and 2008.

• Never gallop Pegasus to death. - View Quote Details on Never gallop Pegasus to death.
• Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
  If not, by any means get wealth and place. - View Quote Details on Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
  If not, by…
• We poets are (upon a poet’s word)
  Of all mankind the creatures most absurd;
  The season when to come, and when to go,
  To sing, or cease to sing, we never know. - View Quote Details on We poets are (upon a poet’s word)
  Of all mankind the…
• Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day. - View Quote Details on Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.
• There still remains, to mortify a wit,
  The many-headed monster of the pit. - View Quote Details on There still remains, to mortify a wit,
  The many-headed monster of…
• Me let the tender office long engage
  To rock the cradle of reposing age;
  With lenient arts extend a mother’s breath,
  Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death;
  Explore the thought, explain the asking eye,
  And keep awhile one parent from the sky. - View Quote Details on Me let the tender office long engage
  To rock the cradle…
• Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
  This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings;
  Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
  Yet wit ne’er tastes, and beauty ne’er enjoys. - View Quote Details on Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings,
  This painted…
• Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:
  It is the rust we value, not the gold. - View Quote Details on Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old:
  It is…
• Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
  They rave, recite, and madden round the land. - View Quote Details on Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
  They rave,…
• To Berkeley every virtue under heaven. - View Quote Details on To Berkeley every virtue under heaven.
• Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke. - View Quote Details on Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
• Is there a parson much bemused in beer,
  A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer,
  A clerk foredoom’d his father’s soul to cross,
  Who pens a stanza when he should engross? - View Quote Details on Is there a parson much bemused in beer,
  A maudlin poetess,…
• Were there one whose fires
  True Genius kindles, and fair Fame inspires,
  Blessed with each talent, and each art to please,
  And born to write, converse, and live with ease;
  Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,
  Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. - View Quote Details on Were there one whose fires
  True Genius kindles, and fair Fame…
• I’ve often wished that I had clear,
  For life, six hundred pounds a year;
  A handsome house to lodge a friend,
  A river at my garden’s end,
  A terrace walk, and half a rood
  Of land set out to plant a wood. - View Quote Details on I’ve often wished that I had clear,
  For life, six hundred…
• But touch me, and no minister so sore;
  Whoe’er offends at some unlucky time
  Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,
  Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
  And the sad burden of some merry song. - View Quote Details on But touch me, and no minister so sore;
  Whoe’er offends at…
• All, all look up with reverential awe
  At crimes that ’scape or triumph o’er the law. - View Quote Details on All, all look up with reverential awe
  At crimes that ’scape…
• Unlearned, he knew no schoolman’s subtle art,
  No language, but the language of the heart. - View Quote Details on Unlearned, he knew no schoolman’s subtle art,
  No language, but the…
• Above all Greek, above all Roman fame. - View Quote Details on Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
• This long disease, my life. - View Quote Details on This long disease, my life.
• Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?
  Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? - View Quote Details on Who but must laugh, if such a man there be?
  Who…
• Ev’n copius Dryden wanted, or forgot,
  The last and greatest art — the art to blot. - View Quote Details on Ev’n copius Dryden wanted, or forgot,
  The last and greatest art…
• Learn to live well, or fairly make your Will;
  You’ve play’d, and lov’d, and eat, and drank your fill:
  Walk sober off; before a sprightlier Age
  Comes titt’ring on, and shoves you from the stage:
  Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease,
  Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please. - View Quote Details on Learn to live well, or fairly make your Will;
  You’ve play’d,…
• Means not, but blunders round about a meaning;
  And he whose fustian ’s so sublimely bad,
  It is not poetry, but prose run mad. - View Quote Details on Means not, but blunders round about a meaning;
  And he whose…
• Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease,
  It gives men happiness, or leaves them ease. - View Quote Details on Call, if you will, bad rhyming a disease,
  It gives men…
• As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
  I lisp’d in numbers, for the numbers came. - View Quote Details on As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
  I…
• Wit that can creep and pride that licks the dust. - View Quote Details on Wit that can creep and pride that licks the dust.
• Give me again my hollow tree,
  A crust of bread, and liberty. - View Quote Details on Give me again my hollow tree,
  A crust of bread, and…
• Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star. - View Quote Details on Bare the mean heart that lurks behind a star.
• When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one. - View Quote Details on When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
• The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg. - View Quote Details on The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.
• Oh let me live my own, and die so too
  (To live and die is all I have to do)!
  Maintain a poet’s dignity and ease,
  And see what friends, and read what books I please. - View Quote Details on Oh let me live my own, and die so too
  (To…
• Laugh then at any but at fools or foes;
  These you but anger, and you mend not those.
  Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore,
  So much the better, you may laugh the more. - View Quote Details on Laugh then at any but at fools or foes;
  These you…
• For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best,
  Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. - View Quote Details on For I, who hold sage Homer’s rule the best,
  Welcome the…
• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. - View Quote Details on Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
• The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. - View Quote Details on The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

About Imitations of Horace

The Imitations of Horace were a collection of poems written by Alexander Pope from 1733 to 1738. They were written in the popular Augustan form of the “imitation” of a classical poet, not so much a translation of his works as an updating with contemporary references. Pope used the model of Horace to satirise life under George II, especially what he regarded as the widespread corruption tainting the country under Walpole’s influence and the poor quality of the court’s artistic taste. Pope also added a wholly original poem, “An Epistle to Doctor Arbuthnot”, as an introduction to the “Imitations”. It reviews his own literary career and includes the famous portraits of Lord John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey (”Sporus”) and Joseph Addison (”Atticus”).

• Suppose instead of election a man were qualified for office by petition signed by four thousand citizens. He would then represent those four thousand affirmatively, with no disgruntled minority, for what would have been a minority in a territorial constituency would all be free to start other petitions or join in them. All would then be represented by men of their choice. Or a man with eight thousand supporters might have two votes in this body. Difficulties, objections, practical points to be worked out— many of them! But you could work them out… and thereby avoid the chronic sickness of representative government, the disgruntled minority which feels— correctly!— that it has been disenfranchised. - View Quote Details on Suppose instead of election a man were qualified for office…
• This air isn’t free, you pay for every breath. - View Quote Details on This air isn’t free, you pay for every breath.
• Review - View Quote Details on Review
• A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ’state’ and ’society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame… as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world… aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure. - View Quote Details on A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ’state’ and…
• Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like frightened child. Mike did not have upsets, acquired sense of humor instead. Low one. If he were a man, you wouldn’t dare stoop over. His idea of thigh-slapper would be to dump you out of bed - or put itch powder in pressure suit. - View Quote Details on Some logics get nervous breakdowns. Overloaded phone system behaves like…
• That we were slaves I had known all my life— and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren’t bought and sold— but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves. - View Quote Details on That we were slaves I had known all my life—…
• In writing your constitution let me invite attention to the wonderful virtue of the negative! Accentuate the negative! Let your document be studded with things the government is forever forbidden to do. No conscript armies… no interference however slight with freedom of press, or speech, or travel, or assembly, or of religion, or of instruction, or communication, or occupation… no involuntary taxation. - View Quote Details on In writing your constitution let me invite attention to the…
• You have put your finger on the dilemma of all government— and the reason I am an anarchist. The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys. I was not joking when I told them to dig into their own pouches. It may not be possible to do away with government— sometimes I think that government is an inescapable disease of human beings. But it may be possible to keep it small and starved and inoffensive— and can you think of a better way than by requiring the governors themselves to pay the costs of their antisocial hobby? - View Quote Details on You have put your finger on the dilemma of all…
• Sovereign,” like “love,” means anything you want it to mean; it’s a word in dictionary between “sober” and “sozzled. - View Quote Details on Sovereign,” like “love,” means anything you want it to mean;…
• Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws— always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: “Please pass this so that I won’t be able to do something I know I should stop.” Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them “for their own good”—not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it. - View Quote Details on Thing that got me was not her list of things…
• Comrades, I beg of you – do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. - View Quote Details on Comrades, I beg of you – do not resort to…
• In past history popularly elected governments have been no better and sometimes far worse than overt tyrannies. - View Quote Details on In past history popularly elected governments have been no better…
• Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn’t forbidden. - View Quote Details on Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for…
• Women are scarce; aren’t enough to go around – that makes them most valuable thing in Luna, more precious than ice or air, as men without women don’t care whether they stay alive or not. - View Quote Details on Women are scarce; aren’t enough to go around – that…
• You listening, Bog? Is a computer one of Your creatures? - View Quote Details on You listening, Bog? Is a computer one of Your creatures?
• Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory. - View Quote Details on Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a…
• But I was born free. - View Quote Details on But I was born free.
• I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. - View Quote Details on I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to…
• Do this. Don’t do that. Stay back in line. Where’s tax receipt? Fill out form. Let’s see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit. - View Quote Details on Do this. Don’t do that. Stay back in line. Where’s…
• Excuse me, I did not mean to criticize your planet - View Quote Details on Excuse me, I did not mean to criticize your planet
• First, what is it you want us to pay taxes for? Tell me what I get and perhaps I’ll buy it. - View Quote Details on First, what is it you want us to pay taxes…

• “You’ll get hurt! Stop now!” (KOF ‘94 vs. England team) - View Quote Details on “You’ll get hurt! Stop now!” (KOF ‘94 vs. England team)
• If everyone loves a winner, I am freakin’ irresistable! - View Quote Details on If everyone loves a winner, I am freakin’ irresistable!
• “4000 year history? Ha!” (KOF ‘94 vs. China team) - View Quote Details on “4000 year history? Ha!” (KOF ‘94 vs. China team)
• “I enjoyed that!” (KOF ‘94 vs. Japan team) - View Quote Details on “I enjoyed that!” (KOF ‘94 vs. Japan team)
• “Are you trying to copy us?” (KOF ‘94 vs. Mexico team) - View Quote Details on “Are you trying to copy us?” (KOF ‘94 vs. Mexico…
• No tyro’s strong at first. It’s all hard work and sweat! - View Quote Details on No tyro’s strong at first. It’s all hard work and…
• “You have to enjoy life!” (KOF ‘94 vs. Brazil team) - View Quote Details on “You have to enjoy life!” (KOF ‘94 vs. Brazil team)
• “Now it’s clear who’s stronger!” (KOF ‘94 vs. Italy team) - View Quote Details on “Now it’s clear who’s stronger!” (KOF ‘94 vs. Italy team)
• True, fighters need composure. But you were comatose! - View Quote Details on True, fighters need composure. But you were comatose!
• “You need to train more!” (KOF ‘94 vs. Korea team) - View Quote Details on “You need to train more!” (KOF ‘94 vs. Korea team)

About Robert Garcia

Robert Garcia is a character in the King of Fighters and Art of Fighting video game series.

• We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we’re in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There’s no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. - View Quote Details on We can believe that we know where the world should…
• I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft. - View Quote Details on I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for…
• Most people still steal music. - View Quote Details on Most people still steal music.
• Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards. - View Quote Details on Google’s not a real company. It’s a house of cards.
• We’ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common format of music on an iPod is “stolen”. - View Quote Details on We’ve had DRM in Windows for years. The most common…
• DRM is the future. - View Quote Details on DRM is the future.
• I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod. - View Quote Details on I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and…
• I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life. - View Quote Details on I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.
• We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference. - View Quote Details on We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s…
• Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. - View Quote Details on Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual…
• I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google. - View Quote Details on I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done…
• I don’t really know that anybody’s proven that a random collection of people doing their own thing actually creates value. - View Quote Details on I don’t really know that anybody’s proven that a random…

About Steve Ballmer

Steven Anthony Ballmer (born March 24, 1956 ) has been the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft since January 2000.

• But when Muriel reads the writing on the barn wall to Clover, interestingly, the words are, “No animal shall kill any other animal without cause.” - View Quote Details on But when Muriel reads the writing on the barn wall…
• Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves any richer— except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. - View Quote Details on Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer…
• Now if there was one thing that the animals were completely certain of, it was that they did not want Jones back. When it was put to them in this light, they had no more to say. The importance of keeping the pigs in good health was all too obvious. So it was agreed without further argument that the milk and the windfall apples (and also the main crop of apples when they ripened) should be reserved for the pigs alone. - View Quote Details on Now if there was one thing that the animals were…
• At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint. - View Quote Details on At the foot of the end wall of the big…
• Surely, comrades, surely there is no one among you who wants to see Jones come back? - View Quote Details on Surely, comrades, surely there is no one among you who…
• Squealer : Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a pleasure. On the contrary, it is a deep and heavy responsibility. No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be? - View Quote Details on Squealer : Do not imagine, comrades, that leadership is a…
• Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarreling and biting and jealousy which had been normal features of life in the old days had almost disappeared. - View Quote Details on Nobody stole, nobody grumbled over his rations, the quarreling and…
• Squealer : “Comrades!” he cried. “You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples.” - View Quote Details on Squealer : “Comrades!” he cried. “You do not imagine, I…
• Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out of the animals’ memory. But they saw now that the Commandment had not been violated; for clearly there was good reason for killing the traitors who had leagued themselves with Snowball. - View Quote Details on Somehow or other, the last two words had slipped out…
• Four legs good, two legs bad. - View Quote Details on Four legs good, two legs bad.
• Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must lead you astray. Never listen when they tell you that Man and the animals have a common interest, that the prosperity of the one is the prosperity of the others. It is all lies. Man serves the interests of no creature except himself. And among us animals let there be perfect unity, perfect comradeship in the struggle. All men are enemies. All animals are comrades. - View Quote Details on Remember, comrades, your resolution must never falter. No argument must…
• Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion. He did his work in the same slow obstinate way as he had done it in Jones’s time, never shirking and never volunteering for extra work either. About the Rebellion and its results he would express no opinion. When asked whether he was not happier now that Jones was gone, he would say only “Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey,” and the others had to be content with this cryptic answer. - View Quote Details on Old Benjamin, the donkey, seemed quite unchanged since the Rebellion…
• Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness. Never to have any dealings with human beings, never to engage in trade, never to make use of money— had not these been among the earliest resolutions passed at the first triumphant Meeting when Jones was expelled? - View Quote Details on Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness…
• Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever. Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. - View Quote Details on Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man…
• The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. - View Quote Details on The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from…
• Animal Farm, Animal Farm,
  Never through me shalt thou come to harm! - View Quote Details on Animal Farm, Animal Farm,
  Never through me shalt thou come to…
• ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
  BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS. - View Quote Details on ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
  BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN…
• Ah, that is different!” said Boxer. “If Comrade Napoleon says it, it must be right. - View Quote Details on Ah, that is different!” said Boxer. “If Comrade Napoleon says…
• Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because nearly the whole of the produce of our labour is stolen from us by human beings. - View Quote Details on Why then do we continue in this miserable condition? Because…
• None of the animals could form any idea as to what this meant, except old Benjamin, who nodded his muzzle with a knowing air, and seemed to understand, but would say nothing. - View Quote Details on None of the animals could form any idea as to…
• Until now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, but in a moment Snowball’s eloquence had carried them away. - View Quote Details on Until now the animals had been about equally divided in…
• Napoleon : Comrades, do you know who is responsible for this? Do you know the enemy who has come in the night and overthrown our windmill? SNOWBALL! - View Quote Details on Napoleon : Comrades, do you know who is responsible for…

About Animal Farm

Animal Farm (1945) is a satirical novella (which can also be understood as a modern fable or allegory) by George Orwell, ostensibly about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm on which they live. They run the farm themselves, only to have it degenerate into a brutal tyranny of its own.

• Every time a good child dies, an angel of God comes down to earth. He takes the child in his arms, spreads out his great white wings, and flies with it all over the places the child loved on earth. The angel plucks a large handful of flowers, and they carry it with them up to God, where the flowers bloom more brightly than they ever did on earth. - View Quote Details on Every time a good child dies, an angel of God…
• I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.” “How very terrible,” cried the princess; “is he locked up?” “Oh yes, certainly; for I fear he will never recover.” “Poor shadow!” said the princess; “it is very unfortunate for him; it would really be a good deed to free him from his frail existence; and, indeed, when I think how often people take the part of the lower class against the higher, in these days, it would be policy to put him out of the way quietly. - View Quote Details on I have gone through the most terrible affair that could…
• When he saw Tiny, he was delighted, and thought her the prettiest little maiden he had ever seen. He took the gold crown from his head, and placed it on hers, and asked her name, and if she would be his wife, and queen over all the flowers. This certainly was a very different sort of husband to the son of a toad, or the mole, with my black velvet and fur; so she said, “Yes,” to the handsome prince. Then all the flowers opened, and out of each came a little lady or a tiny lord, all so pretty it was quite a pleasure to look at them. Each of them brought Tiny a present; but the best gift was a pair of beautiful wings, which had belonged to a large white fly and they fastened them to Tiny’s shoulders, so that she might fly from flower to flower. - View Quote Details on When he saw Tiny, he was delighted, and thought her…
• We sometimes live to three hundred years, but when we cease to exist here we only become the foam on the surface of the water, and we have not even a grave down here of those we love. We have not immortal souls,because Estelle is a star and we shall never live again; but, like the green sea-weed, when once it has been cut off, we can never flourish more. Human beings, on the contrary, have a soul which lives forever, lives after the body has been turned to dust. It rises up through the clear, pure air beyond the glittering stars. As we rise out of the water, and behold all the land of the earth, so do they rise to unknown and glorious regions which we shall never see. - View Quote Details on We sometimes live to three hundred years, but when we…
• They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate. - View Quote Details on They could see she was a real Princess and no…
• Death continued to stare at the emperor with his cold, hollow eyes, and the room was fearfully still. Suddenly there came through the open window the sound of sweet music. Outside, on the bough of a tree, sat the living nightingale. She had heard of the emperor’s illness, and was therefore come to sing to him of hope and trust. And as she sung, the shadows grew paler and paler; the blood in the emperor’s veins flowed more rapidly, and gave life to his weak limbs; and even Death himself listened, and said, “Go on, little nightingale, go on.” - View Quote Details on Death continued to stare at the emperor with his cold,…
• Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all. - View Quote Details on Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them,…
• Når ordene fejler er det musikken der taler. - View Quote Details on Når ordene fejler er det musikken der taler.
• Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken. - View Quote Details on Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what…
• His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck’s nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan’s egg. - View Quote Details on His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly…
• At rejse er at leve. - View Quote Details on At rejse er at leve.
• Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects. - View Quote Details on Far out in the ocean, where the water is as…
• “But he has nothing on at all,” said a little child at last. “Good heavens! listen to the voice of an innocent child,” said the father, and one whispered to the other what the child had said. “But he has nothing on at all,” cried at last the whole people. That made a deep impression upon the emperor, for it seemed to him that they were right; but he thought to himself, “Now I must bear up to the end.” And the chamberlains walked with still greater dignity, as if they carried the train which did not exist. - View Quote Details on “But he has nothing on at all,” said a little…
• He felt himself melting away, but he still remained firm with his gun on his shoulder. Suddenly the door of the room flew open and the draught of air caught up the little dancer, she fluttered like a sylph right into the stove by the side of the tin soldier, and was instantly in flames and was gone. The tin soldier melted down into a lump, and the next morning, when the maid servant took the ashes out of the stove, she found him in the shape of a little tin heart. But of the little dancer nothing remained but the tinsel rose, which was burnt black as a cinder. - View Quote Details on He felt himself melting away, but he still remained firm…

About Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-04-02 – 1875-08-04 ) was a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales.