Linlithgow Group Quotes & Sayings

One nice thing about the Third World, you don't have to fasten your seat belt. (Or stop smoking. Or cut down on saturated fats.) It takes a lot off your mind when average life expectancy is forty-five minutes. — P. J. O'Rourke

It's nice when the movie is not on your shoulders, too. It's fun to do a smaller part sometimes. — Kirsten Dunst

My case clearly demonstrates the need for comprehensive whistleblower protection act reform. If we had had a real process in place, and reports of wrongdoing could be taken to real, independent arbiters rather than captured officials, I might not have had to sacrifice so much to do what at this point even the President seems to agree needed to be done. — Edward Snowden

When you're reading, like, a character's thoughts, or when it's in first person, you're reading kind of their own story, so you have the opportunity to see what makes that character complex or complicated. And to me, that's what the whole point of fiction is. — Joe Meno

Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time. — John Sandford

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. — Norman Mailer

I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred. — Bob Dylan

It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once. — Francis Galton

He who blushes is already guilty. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Even the new feminist research on sex-role socialization and sex differences has sometimes had the unfortunate consequence of creating a new set of stereotypes about what women feel and how women behave. Despite the large amount of overlap between the sexes in most research, the tendency to label and polarize and thus to exaggerate differences remains in much reporting of data, which may, for example, report the mean scores of male and female populations but not the degree of overlap. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

If you want to heal
Heal others
And smile or weep
At this very happy reversal of fate — Muriel Barbery