Daghistany Quotes & Sayings

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen. — George Weinberg

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film. — George Clooney

Jesus Christ was God's revenue officer. — Billy Sunday

Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages. — Eric S. Raymond

I need a sitting room where I can entertain my friends, but I must have a library where my books entertain me. — Brooks Adams

In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers. — Ambrose Bierce

I find this in all these places I've been travelling - from India to China, to Japan and Europe and to Brazil - there is a frustration with the terms of public discourse, with a kind of absence of discussion of questions of justice and ethics and of values. — Michael Sandel

You don't need to come from poverty to say growing up is tough. You can have everything in the world going for you and still feel the same loneliness and the same problems that a lot of kids have. — Justin Chatwin

Narrative is the way to communicate ideas. Philosophy just tastes bad to most people unless you wrap it up in a good story. — Lily King

Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity? — Howard Zinn

If you have a gun, you can shoot one, two, three, five people; but if you have an ideology and stick to it, thinking it is the absolute truth, you can kill millions. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Call me Dudley. We're of equal rank. I'm older, but you're far better looking. I can tell we're going to be grand partners. — James Ellroy

The creative element in the mind of man ... emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts. — Loren Eiseley