Hoists Direct Quotes & Sayings

The simpler things are, the happier they are. — Gwyneth Paltrow

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once. — Jeff Lindsay

Socrates: I'm afraid that it might actually be sacrilegious to stand idly by while morality is being denigrated and not try to assist as long as one has breath in one's body and a voice to protest with. — Plato

If the spark doesn't come, that's a pity; but we do not read the classics out of duty or respect, but only out of love. — Italo Calvino

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set. — Bruce Nash

The education of youth belongs to the priests, yet they do not take so much care of instructing them in letters, as in forming their minds and manners aright; they use all possible methods to infuse, very early, into the tender and flexible minds of children, such opinions as are both good in themselves and will be useful to their country, for when deep impressions of these things are made at that age, they follow men through the whole course of their lives, and conduce much to preserve the peace of the government, which suffers by nothing more than by vices that rise out of ill opinions. — Thomas More

Jack in and jerk off, kid! You too can save the world ... from those evil, bug-eyed commies from space! — Hal Duncan

What is a throne? A chair; ornamented but a poisonous chair! — Mehmet Murat Ildan