Illustrer Quotes & Sayings

Every man's condition is a solution in hieroglyphic to those inquiries he would put. He acts it as life, before he apprehends it as truth. In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and tendencies, describing its own design. Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let us inquire, to what end is nature? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember. — Diane Frolov

Those of us who are working with these strange substances trying to find the best way of using them, both in the treatment of illnesses and for the exploration of the human mind, need men like Bishop to come forward and explain that our purposes are serious and good, to emphasize that this is not a diversion, an amusement or an attempt to relieve people of their spare cash.

-Robert Dickins — Cameron Adams

In a very short time the army of Northern Virginia was face to face with the Army of the Potomac. — James Longstreet

Corporations with their political allies are waging an unrelenting class war against working people. — Noam Chomsky

Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
Through pathless realms of Space — W.S. Gilbert

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. — Ambrose Bierce

The real being, with no status, is always going in and out through the doors of your face. — Linji Yixuan

Saga of the Sexually Repressed Southerner Who Traded Gold for Whale Teeth. — Yanko Tsvetkov

Never shame to hear what you have nobly done — William Shakespeare

What can laws do without morals? — Benjamin Franklin

I'm not a Twitterer, I'm not a twerker, I'm not a Facebooker, I'm not nothing. I'm old school. — Michael Jordan

The net is more than an organizing tool - it has become an organizing model, a blueprint for decentralized but cooperative decision-making. It facilitates the process of information sharing to such an extent that many groups can work in concert with one another without the need to achieve monolithic consensus. — Naomi Klein

This is terrible wine, no?' I agreed. It was a carbonated sweet wine, acceptable only because of its alcohol content. — Graeme Simsion

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options. — Robert Webb