Bubernak Quotes & Sayings

For evil news rides post, while good news baits. — John Milton

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form. — E. M. Forster

Persuasion comes in many forms," said Lord Vetinari. "No, I agree with Archchancellor Ridcully, sending Captain Carrot would be an excellent idea."
"What? Did I say something?" said Ridcully.
"Do you think that sending Captain Carrot would be an excellent idea?"
"What? Oh. Yes. Good lad. Keen. Got a sword."
"Then I agree with you," said Lord Vetinari, who knew how to work a committee. — Terry Pratchett

I knew neither jealousy nor hate but was possessed by a rage to recreate a new world, the world which my eyes perceived, a world all to myself. I was poor but I knew that life is beautiful. — Maurice De Vlaminck

Nowhere near the driver's seat, and I love this journey God's got me on! — Dolls Bowman

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise. — W. Somerset Maugham

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving. — Junot Diaz

They were very much the same, each attempting to force his picture of reality upon me and neither giving a hoot in hell for how things looked to me. — Ralph Ellison

They didn't get me, I should have said. They saved me. — Lauren Oliver

I'm a waste of space. — Melina Marchetta

There is no nation on the continent of Europe that is less able to do harm to England, and there isno nation on the continent of Europe to whom we are less able to do harm, than Russia.We are so separate that it seems impossible that the two nations, by the use of reason or common sense at all, could possibly be brought into conflict with each other. — John Bright

Calumnies are answered best with silence. — Ben Jonson

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next. — Conrad Veidt

When I was director of the CIA, I knew that we had been - and I'm choosing my words very carefully here - effective in our expansion. We really had - expansion of government agencies and expansion of use of contractors. Effective, we were; efficient, we weren't. And so, as director of the CIA, I went after the inefficiencies part. — Michael Hayden