Bastert Quotes & Sayings

Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts — P.G. Wodehouse

I have no idea why hitting people when their backs are turned has such a bad reputation. I've always found it most effective." — Cassandra Gannon

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes. — Daniel H. Wilson

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish. — Ismail Merchant

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it. — Graham Swift

This is pretty hard on the Elders, is it not? If they could remember one thousandth part of that which they have heard, it would have sanctified them years and years ago; but it goes in at one ear and out at the other
it is like the weaver's shuttle passing through the web. — Brigham Young

All of the technology is a means to an end. We are the end. And we just have to pay attention.. — Jac Holzman

The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found. — Judith Perelman Rossner

What was the point of the Devil if there was a God like that? Maybe there was just the Devil, the real God of this fucking world. Or maybe there was just nothing at all. — Janet Fitch

African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. — Robert Collier

My daughter was a beautiful child. — Bernie Mac

When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain? — William Shakespeare

Sorry?" said Dalziel turning. "What's that you said?"
He cupped a large hand to a proportionally large ear.
If the buggers get clever, he had once told Pascoe, pretend you can't hear. Then pretend you can't understand. Nothing's funny if it's repeated and explained. — Reginald Hill