Karington Mollin Quotes & Sayings

Those who refuse to support and defend the state have no claim to protection by that state. Killing an anarchist or a pacifist should not be considered "murder" in a legalistic sense. The offense against the state, if any, should be "Using deadly weapons within city limits," or "Creating a traffic hazard," or other misdemeanor. — Robert A. Heinlein

If you give an ant infinite time, it can move a mountain all by itself. — Scott Adams

I'm just auditioning. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. — Madeline Zima

Vice President Biden's surprising declaration of unqualified support for gay marriage seems to have forced President Obama into a public endorsement of a controversial social issue. It is difficult not to suspect that Biden's pronouncement aimed to give the president some political cover. — Robert Dallek

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done. — A. E. Hotchner

Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The habitual use of profanity is not progressive, just unimaginative. — Ron Brackin

It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go. — Charles Bukowski

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. — Quintilian

I blinked, and the world exploded with data. Images, scanned documents and photographs, a whirlwind of numbers, under-the-table deals, and whispered words. — Jason Heller

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes. — Dale Renton

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom. — Henri Bergson

As I became aware that all things have unique spatial and temporal qualities which visually define and relate them, I began to perceive the things I was photographing not as objects but as events. Working to develop my skills of perceiving and symbolizing these event qualities, I discovered the principle of opposites. When, for example, I photographed the smooth, luminous body of a woman behind a dirty cobwebbed window, I found that the qualities of each event were enhanced and the universal forces which they manifested were more powerfully evoked. — Wynn Bullock

As we all know, there is no underwear in space. — Carrie Fisher