Billy Madison Debate Quotes & Sayings

Why have you let your mind get so entwined,"
my master said, "that you have slowed your walk?
Why should you care about what's whispered here?
Come, follow me, and let these people talk:
stand like a sturdy tower that does not shake
its summit though the winds may blast; always
the man in whom thought thrusts ahead of thought
allows the goal he's set to move far off-
the force of one thought saps the other's force. — Dante Alighieri

It was I who stayed awake wrestling with the shadows on the ceiling and the taunting of the grandfather clock — Nina G. Jones

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge. — Madonna Ciccone

I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing. — Mahatma Gandhi

You won't let anything bad happen to me, will you, Garrett?"
A lump the size of Massachusetts lodges in my throat. I swallow hard and try to speak past it.
"Never. — Elle Kennedy

It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some. — Joseph LeConte

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever. — Mark Shand

Maybe, although my heart
is a kitten of butter,
I am blowing it up like a zeppelin. — Anne Sexton

I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT when this book comes out, Scientologists will scream about religious intolerance, say that I am a liar, that I was kicked out of the church, and call Troublemaker the work of a hateful bigot or a self-absorbed person with an "insatiable craving for attention." (That last part might not be totally untrue; I am an actress, after all.) What they will likely not do, however, is actually read this book, because that would be going against one of the basic tenets of Scientology. A member should not read or watch anything generated by someone whom the church — Leah Remini

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely. — Confucius