Algimantas Baltakis Quotes & Sayings

She lifted me back into the seat with a wicked grin, and breathed, 'Just don't stop talking. Whatever you do, just don't stop talking,' and swallowed my manhood. I scrambled desperately through the darkened corners of my memory until I couldn't take it anymore. I grabbed her by the hair and said, 'Now bend over, and I'll do to you what the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries wants to keep the Federal government from doing to the state of Alaska. — Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only — Anonymous

As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. — George Washington

In fact, knowing she'd been through hardship filled me with sweet tenderness. — Taichi Yamada

What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information. — Edward R. Tufte

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. — Warren G. Bennis

We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction. — George W. Bush

I looked gloomily into the murky lake at the bottom of my teacup, and — David Mitchell

As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present. — Brian Klemmer

Some of the peoples of Africa have been out of trees for only about 50 years. — Richard M. Nixon