Endnote Web Quotes & Sayings

None can be Tyrants but Cowards. — Mary Astell

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me. — William Faulkner

There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway. — Lemony Snicket

I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me. — Bill Gates

But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty. — Thomas Jefferson

It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know. — Henry David Thoreau

I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I had often thought about people who lived through strange and compelling times - World War II, the Great Depression, the civil rights movement. These were periods that shaped people in some indelible way. I wondered how this moment would define us. I had never before believed that there was anything special about the era I was growing up in. — Aditi Khorana

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet. — Alex Shoumatoff

Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting is just a way to get out of the hard work of making music that will do some lasting damage. — Henry Rollins