Authorising Quotes & Sayings

My friends weren't concerned with botany. — Amy A. Bartol

Happiness is not a destination. It is a way of life. — Kurt Vonnegut

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree. — Barry Levinson

The Internet is a communication medium that allows for the first time, the communication of many to many, in chosen time, on a global scale. — Manuel Castells

We are increasingly blind for terrorism purposes and for general law enforcement purposes with the new devices and the continuing effort to make them even more secure against even court orders authorising law enforcement to have access. — William Bratton

Love comes so much more easily to the young. — Heather Cullman

Oh, i'm going to kick his ass, and when i'm done, i'm going to squeeze his balls blue. — Nora Roberts

A well-worn adage advises those who set out upon a great enterprise to count the cost, yet some of the greatest enterprises have succeeded because the people who undertook them did not count the cost. — Thomas Huxley

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author. — Mortimer J. Adler

It's not about the money for me. — Dontrelle Willis

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is difficult to picture the rich, hard-nosed advisors of James I being overly concerned about the rights of vagabonds and felons. But this was a period that was especially suspicious of arbitrary acts by the Crown against individuals. There was no law enabling the crown to exile anyone, including the baser convict, into forced labour. According to legal scholars, the Magna Carta itself protected even them. The Privy Councillors therefore dressed up what was to befall the convicts and presented the decree authorising their transportation as an act of royal mercy. The convicts were to be reprieved from death in exchange for accepting transportation. (71-71) — Don Jordan

'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it. — Eli Roth