Beibaoke Quotes & Sayings

If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. — Douglas Adams

The thing about a cavity search is this: it has nothing to do with the dentist. — Gordon Korman

My room is a grave yard of whisky bottles in a swamp of stale beer, cigar ashes, and dick jokes. — Vincent Brooks

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins. — Tom Stoppard

We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one else knows this makes it seem like we are living with a secret that we would like to share, but can't, sort of like having a superpower that's not come online or being president elect. For the moment, our lives proceed as usual, but within a month, we think, everything will change. It's a frustrating, if exciting, disconnect. — Rob Lowe

When the war ended in 1945, Robert Newton's film career took off. And then he landed the part of Disney's Long John Silver. "What accent do you want me to put on?" he asked Walt, in his natural thick West-country, 'Cornwall/Devon/Dorset' burr. Pointing at his face excitedly, "Why, that one." Disney replied. And THE OFFICIAL PIRATE ACCENT was born. Newton went on to do another Long John Silver film, then a 26 part television series. He died early, aged 50, from chronic alcoholism, just the way a pirate would want to go. But he left the legacy of 'the' pirate accent 'til the end of time. Every pirate 'R' or 'Arrrgh' joke you ever heard, owes its very life to the combination of Robert Newton, R. L. Stevenson, and Walt Disney.
-- Renaissance Festival Survival Guide — Ian Hall

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. — Theodore Parker

All heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor. — Martin Luther