Motrices Quotes & Sayings

Demon hunting and fashion," Clary said. "I never would have thought they went together. — Cassandra Clare

Why is it that we honor the Great Thieves of Whitehall, for Acts that in Whitechapel would merit hanging? Why admire one sort of Thief, and despise the other? I suggest, 'tis because of the Scale of the Crime.
What we of the Mobility love to watch, is any of the Great Motrices, Greed, Lust, Revenge, taken out of all measure, brought quite past the scale of the ev'ryday world, approaching what we always knew were the true Dimensions of Desire. Let Antony lose the world for Cleopatra, to be sure,
not Dick his Day's Wages, at the Tavern. — Thomas Pynchon

The policy of the repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked. The alternative to it is the long difficult road of education. To this the American people have committed. — Robert M. Hutchins

Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels? — Rudolf Virchow

People now a days are in business of minding other's business. — Kartik Mehta

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong. — Alessandro Volta

I think all my movies are about transitions to some degree. — Noah Baumbach

The race car is harder to drive. If there was an in-car camera that could have watched me saw on that wheel for 500 laps, there wasn't one time I could relax. — Greg Biffle

Unlike the talent for war, the ability to make peace has always been rare. — Lawrence Wright

To use a fighter as a fighter-bomber when the strength of the fighter arm is inadequate to achieve air superiority is putting the cart before the horse. — Adolf Galland

If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is. — Kurt Vonnegut

He plunges into the middle of them and it is a frightening thing. He must be fierce and wicked and brave all at the same time. I'm glad he's on our side. — Nancy E. Turner

I don't like love as a command, as a search. It must come to you, like a hungry cat at the door. — Charles Bukowski

I really do enjoy making movies and I try to test myself on occasion with some different stuff. — Adam Sandler