Attitu Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps we are only forerunners. Twenty or even a hundred years may pass before the National Socialist idea is victorious; those who believe in the ideal today may die: but what is a man in the development of a people, of mankind. — Adolf Hitler

Butter has the same improbable myth of origin as cheese, that it accidentally got churned in the animal skins of central Asian nomads. Easily spoiled in sunlight, it was a northern food. The Celts and the Vikings, and their descendants, the Normans, are credited with popularizing butter in northern Europe. Southerners remained suspicious and for centuries maintained that the reason more cases of leprosy were found in the north was that northerners ate butter. Health-conscious southern clergy and noblemen, when they had to travel to northern Europe, would guard against the dreaded disease by bringing their own olive oil with them. — Mark Kurlansky

Good writing comes from good talent. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up. — Gina Greenlee

Just because I face a defeat does not mean I am defeated. — Jeffrey Fry

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile phone records could be easily available to officials across government. — David Blunkett

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. — Arundhati Roy

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse. — Lester Bangs

The hidden clash of a silent conflict like this is far harder to bear than an open quarrel. — Rabindranath Tagore

I'm an independent thinker. And I'm not the poster child for any movement. I'm trying to support whatever's right no matter where it is. — Mos Def

My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true. — Walter Kirn

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003. — Conan O'Brien

Love is poetry, poetry is love — Milan Kundera

I never can resist a touch of the dramatic. — Arthur Conan Doyle