Mansueto Institute Quotes & Sayings

Science is essentially an anarchic enterprise: theoretical anarchism is more humanitarian and more likely to encourage progress than its law-and-order alternatives. — Paul Karl Feyerabend

Created by writer Beau Willimon, who's worked on several political campaigns, 'House of Cards' cannily exploits the current widespread cynicism for our politics, catering to a public scorn that's warranted and also glib in the sort of cheap pox-on-both-houses way that means not having to pay attention. — Steve Erickson

Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones. — Jennifer Donnelly

There is a certain consideration, and a general duty of humanity, that binds us not only to the animals, which have life and feeling, but even to the trees and plants. We owe justice to people, and kindness and benevolence to all other creatures who may be susceptible of it. There is some intercourse between them and us, and some mutual obligation. — Michel De Montaigne

I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed. — Bernardo Bertolucci

It's not about the future, it's about the moment. — Tammy Kling

To a winner, complacency and overconfidence can be destructive. To losers, desperation and despondency are just as harmful. — Bill Walsh

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited. — Helen Hunt

Thus, the removal of the Jewish people to Babylonia laid the groundwork for the Christian faith. Simply put, the Gentiles who followed Jesus had some familiarity with the Jews' monotheism because of their erstwhile proliferation throughout the Mediterranean realm. — James Mikolajczyk

My music is a very personal reflection of me, whereas, acting a role, that's a reflection of another character. — Riz Ahmed

The disgust of distinguished people for snobs who want to force themselves upon them, the virile man has for the invert, the woman for every man who is too much in love with her. — Marcel Proust

Aunt J, I've begged for love for seventeen years. Without you, I would never have found it. — Ellen Hopkins

When one is experiencing failure, it is hard to resist the comfort of paranoia. — Thomas M. Disch

I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns. — Beth Ditto

Do you ever hide books you've read over and over again because you're so sick of them?'

'Oh, definitely. When they ask for them, I say the book fairy came to get it. One time they saw one of the books at the library, so now they think the librarians are book fairies. — Gina Sheridan