Dumbos At Duling Quotes & Sayings

I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all. I scribbled all my opinions on the margins of the pages ... From Gibbon I went to Macauley. I had learnt The Lays of Ancient Rome by heart, and loved them; and of course I knew he had written a history; but I had never read a page of it ... I accepted all Macauley wrote as gospel, and I was grieved to read his harsh judgements upon the Great Duke of Marlborough. — Winston Churchill

Regard a king as someone unconcerned with kingship. — Rumi

Put glibly:
In science if you know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
In engineering if you do not know what you are doing you should not be doing it.
Of course, you seldom, if ever, see either pure state. — Richard Hamming

I warn you, I refuse to be an object. — Leonora Carrington

All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretense of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger. — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English. — Alice Walker

You feel alive to the degree that you feel you can help others. — John Travolta

That's the authentic punk dance. It's like a child dizzy on lemonade. — Noel Fielding

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem. — Ilka Chase

Any truth must be in a humanly conceptualized and understandable form if it is to be a truth for us. If it's not a truth for us, how can we make sense of its being a truth at all? — George Lakoff

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each political society should contribute such a share of their rights, as will, from a common stock of these rights, produce the largest quantity of benefits for them. — John Dickinson

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago. — Moby

Selling out is getting a job. — Anthony Bourdain

Every human perfection is linked to an error which it threatens to turn into — Arthur Schopenhauer