Adlerstein Quotes & Sayings

The idea of having no responsibilities except general edification seems like such a luxury now. When I had it, all I wanted to do was hack around on the Web. Now the vast majority of my hours are hacking around on the Web. — Matt Mullenweg

American hunting is quite different from English hunting because we don't hunt to kill. Even if I wanted to kill a fox, I couldn't. They're too smart and they have too many ways to escape me, whereas they don't in England. — Rita Mae Brown

And why do the main characters always have to hate each other at the beginning of the movie? Like, hello, red flag. It's so obvious they're going to get together. — Catherine McKenzie

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it. — Antoine D'Agata

Manners,[ ... ] are severly underappreciated in my opinion".
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Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious. — Michelle Sagara West

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. — William Safire

For another thing, the devil uses special diligence to destroy the souls of young men, and they seem not to know it. Satan knows well that you will make up the next generation, and therefore he employs every art betimes to make you his own. I would not have you ignorant of his devices. You are those on whom he plays off all his choicest temptations. He spreads his net with the most watchful carefulness, to entangle your hearts. He baits his traps with the sweetest morsels, to get you into his power. He displays his wares before your eyes with his utmost ingenuity, in order to make you buy his sugared poisons, and eat his accursed dainties. You are the grand object of his attack. — J.C. Ryle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands. — Charles De Gaulle

We don't like to kill our unborn; we need them to grow up and fight our wars. — Marilyn Manson

Life isn't about the brand of clothes you wear, or about who looks the best. It's about the number of faces which smile when they hear your name — Christian O. Ortiz

To be a good soldier you must love the army. But to be a good officer you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love. That is ... a very hard thing to do. No other profession requires it. That is one reason why there are so very few good officers. Although there are many good men. — Michael Shaara

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself ... and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad. — Miles Davis

Did I look like crap because I felt like crap, or did I feel like crap because I looked like crap? Ah, the mysteries of life — Karina Halle

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan. — George Canning

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator. — David Ignatius