Lumsdaine Doyle Quotes & Sayings

The knocking out of a pipe can be made almost as important as the smoking of it, especially if there are nervous people in the room. A good, smart knock of a pipe against a tin wastebasket and you will have a neurasthenic out of his chair and into the window sash in no time. — Robert Benchley

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11. — Sibel Edmonds

There are lots of Linux users who don't care how the kernel works, but only want to use it. That is a tribute to how good Linux is. — Linus Torvalds

Loneliness is good practice for eternity. — Sheridan Hay

Our children start out as good readers and will remain so if the adults around them nourish their enthusiasm instead of trying to prove themselves. If we stimulate their desire to learn before making them recite out loud; if we support them in their efforts instead of trying to catch them out; if we give up whole evenings instead of trying to save time; if we make the present come alive without threatening them with the future; if we refuse to turn pleasure into a chore but nurture it instead. If we do all this, we ourselves will rediscover the pleasure of giving freely
because all cultural apprenticeship is free. — Daniel Pennac

Friendships offer more than happiness and a feeling of mutual camaraderie; in time they are most important while giving you permission to ultimately be yourself. — Steven Cuoco

So you have to be humble in dealing with the spaces and make sure they are used according to their unique purpose for which there is no alternative...art, if you like, is really a lack of alternatives."

-Jonathan Meese — Prestel Publishing

What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish. — Rush Limbaugh

Indeed, intolerance is essential only to monotheism; an only God is by nature a jealous God who will not allow another to live. On the other hand, polytheistic gods are naturally tolerant, they live and let live. — Arthur Schopenhauer

For as the Good is only a single thing, so all ways lead to the Good, even the false ones: when the repentant one follows the same way back. — Soren Kierkegaard

Obviously somebody had been appallingly incompetent and he hoped to God it wasn't him. — Douglas Adams

Our ancestors always thought of the worst thing that could happen, and that's why we're alive. — Fiona Apple

She had a sense of comedy that was really exquisite, but she needed people, always people, to bring it out, with the inevitable result that she frittered her time away, lunching, dining, giving these incessant parties of hers, talking no sense, saying things she didn't mean, blunting the edge of her mind, losing her discrimination.. — Virginia Woolf

Merciless Mart, with its grand lobby. I glimpse the Abnegation — Veronica Roth