Herculaneum Quotes & Sayings

If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology. — Mitch Kapor

He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's getting so people no longer count the silverware when I come to dinner. — Wilson Mizner

The characters and plot in this book are pure fiction. Any similarity to real persons living or dead, elected, convicted, or merely toppled from power, is entirely coincidental. — Thomas Gately Briody

While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic social and political happiness. — Benjamin Rush

I wonder how it is that I'm fooling so many people, I'm doing one of the most stupid things in the world ... and people seem to be falling for it. — Cindy Sherman

Not Giving A Fuck Does Not Mean Being Indifferent; It Means Being Comfortable With Being Different — Anonymous

One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now! — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Even at times when I don't care, I know exactly what I would care about if I did. — Robert Breault

If you order, with the absolute conviction that his wish will come, it will happen that way. But you mix the desire, fear and regret, and that is a contradiction. — Hermann Hesse

morsels of tesselated pavement from Herculaneum and Pompeii, like petrified minced veal; — Charles Dickens

When my echoing footsteps brought it suddenly into my mind that there was a dreadful truth in the legend of the Ghost's Walk, that it was I who was to bring calamity upon the stately house and that my warning feet were haunting it even then. Seized with an augmented terror of myself which turned me cold, I ran from myself and everything, retraced the way by which I had come, and never paused until I had gained the lodge-gate, and the park lay sullen and black behind me. — Charles Dickens

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review. — Gaspar Noe

Things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse. — Alice Thomas Ellis

No matter how old you are, there's no cozier feeling than to have your mom take care of you. — Brandi Glanville

I am in love with life. I think it's pretty awesome when you are engaged in it. I love my family and my friends, and that to me is the biggest ... that's the love of my life are my friends and family and the experience that I get to share with them. It puts a smile on my face and in my heart. — Cameron Diaz

Don't you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say ... what has to be said? — Colette