Guildenstern Fellow Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Asher: Mrs. Ling, is that duck wearing trousers?
Mrs. Ling: Could be ... You hear of paper-wrap chicken? This duck in pants. — Christopher Moore

But no perfection is so absolute
That some inpurity doth not pollute. — William Shakespeare

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman — Audrey Hepburn

Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders. — Friedrich Nietzsche

'It is my duty to warn you that it will be used against you,' cried the Inspector, with the magnificent fair play of the British criminal law. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Learning to explain phenomena such that one continues to be fascinated by the failure of one's explanations creates a continuing cycle of thinking, that is the crux of intelligence. It isn't that one person knows more than another, then. In as sense, it is important to know less than the next person, or at least to be certain of less, thus enabling more curiosity and less explaining away because one has again encountered a well-known phenomenon. The less you know the more you can find out about, and finding out for oneself is what intelligence is all about. — Roger Schank

There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery. — Nelson Mandela

I think bears and worms aren't very similar ... until you think of gummy. — Demetri Martin

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. — Ira Gershwin

I remember ... watching that separation of sea and sky ... and for the first time I realize that none of us are seeing the same thing. That all our horizons end in different places. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything. — Susan Sontag