Mephistopheles Latin Quotes & Sayings

You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school. — Michael Hastings

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer. Likewise, the bicycle is alive and well. It was invented in a world without automobiles, and for speed and range it was quickly surpassed by motorcycles and all kinds of powered scooters. But there is nothing quaint about bicycles. They outsell cars. — James Gleick

I could be tiny and near the ground, unable to move very fast or far, but with a simple lift of a camera, that lens let me go places I couldn't even imagine. — Anne Eliot

the mind that has convinced itself of its own superiority is incapable of humility, and in the absence of humility, it is incapable of growth. — Steven Erikson

Am I worried? Sure, I'm worried. When it comes to the Olympics, it can't be a predictable finish. — Hayley Wickenheiser

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that. — Sunny Deol

A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set us a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist. Already there are countless people who would think it scandalous to falsify a scientific text-book, but would see nothing wrong in falsifying an historical fact. — George Orwell

The Internet has been seen in the West as the quintessential expression of the free exchange of ideas and information, untrammeled by government interference and increasingly global in reach. But the Chinese government has shown that the Internet can be successfully filtered and controlled. — Martin Jacques

You're going to run into jerk-offs, but remember: It's not the size of the asshole you worry about, it's how much shit comes out of it. — Justin Halpern

Never experienced anything like the prickling sensation before. From then on, my life was never the same. The prickle would show up and bam, I — Jessica Sorensen

There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

They [INTJs] are likely, however, to organize themselves out of a job. They cannot continually reorganize the same thing, and a finished product has no more interest. Thus, they need successive new assignments, with bigger and better problems, to stretch their powers. — Isabel Briggs Myers