Midi Monitor Quotes & Sayings

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. — Henry Bessemer

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations. — Wesley Snipes

Similarly, when Lincoln insisted the Civil War was about the union, not about slavery, this is understood by competent historians to reflect Lincoln's determination to keep border states - Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri - within the union. These states had slavery, and if Lincoln framed the war as one to end slavery, the border states would have seceded. If they seceded, Lincoln believed the union cause was lost. Once again, Lincoln acted in statesmanlike fashion to hold the border states, and he was successful in doing so, thus shortening the war and ending slavery more quickly. — Dinesh D'Souza

Heroes are a mischievous race. — Jeremy Collier

The idea which tyrants find most useful is the idea of God. — Stendhal

My Hamlet was about as alienated as you can get. Mine was a bitter and lonely prince. Valid, I think, but maybe tough to root for. I think that romance was missing. — Stephen Lang

Evolution of knowledge is made towards simplicity and not complexity. — Daniel Marques

I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there ... — William Golding

When you do something, you miss something else! If you don't want to miss anything, you have to do everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I love when God slips in and takes care of things without our knowledge at the moment. — Amanda Penland

Gentlemen, I have a confession to make. Half of what we have taught you is in error, and furthermore we cannot tell you which half it is — William Osler

To have a discussion about the plusses and minuses of various forms of group action, though, is going to require discussing the current tools and services as they exist, rather than discussing their caricatures or simply wishing that they would disappear. — Clay Shirky