Alistaire Quotes & Sayings

Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it. — Mikhail Bulgakov

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat. — Mark Twain

For a woman there is nothing more erotic than being understood. — Molly Haskell

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. — Mary Daly

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care was as easy to get as, say, a gun. — Andy Borowitz

Life just makes so much more sense with black framed glasses on ... — Nicole Richie

Mine doesn't even know there is laundry. It just magically gets done. — Mila Kunis

At Vatican Council II, one dissenting Roman Catholic theologian declared: "Yes, the Bible says "Be fruitful and multiply," but that was when the population was two per square world. — Israel Shenker

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Redd turned to her assassins. "What is it I always say?"
The Cat, Sacrenoir, and the others bandied uncertain glances about.
"Don't be stupid?" ventured Alistaire.
"I should kill you now?" offered The Cat.
"Do I have to murder everyone myself?" tried Siren.
"No, idiots! When in doubt, go for the head. That's what I always say. — Frank Beddor

We work in an environment where your options are to do, you know, Batman 10, so when you get to do a movie that's a really great film like this, people really step up to the plate and enjoy it. — James Woods

What she didn't display, I noticed, was a boxful of swimming medals.
"Holy crap," I said, when she set them on the desk. "You're like a fish."
"Oh. Um. Well, I swim, you see."
I saw. — Maureen Johnson

I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before.' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on. — Aya Kito

Our hearts where they rocked our cradle,
Our love where we spent our toil,
And our faith, and our hope, and our honor,
We pledge to our native soil.
God gave all men all earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all. — Rudyard Kipling

Well, what's Cecilia say today?" he asked, not bothering to rise. "Can't believe you two write each other every day. Doesn't it get boring? 'Dear Joseph, I went to town today and bought an egg. Then I boiled it and had breakfast. — Jack Lewis Baillot

Suppose you have a group of fifty experimental subjects, who you hypothesize (H) are human beings. You observe (O) that one of them is an albino. Now, albinism is extremely rare, affecting no more than one in twenty thousand people. So given that H is correct, the chance you'd find an albino among your fifty subjects is quite small, less than 1 in 400,* or 0.0025. So the p-value, the probability of observing O given H, is much lower than .05. We are inexorably led to conclude, with a high degree of statistical confidence, that H is incorrect: the subjects in the sample are not human beings. — Jordan Ellenberg