Mycrofts Blue Quotes & Sayings

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. — Catherine Deneuve

On one side the government, the other side the mob. — Neil Young

He was the cleanest-cut comic-book schoolboy hero imaginable. — Joanne Harris

There's something totally crazy about this. — Carl Bernstein

There is a wonderful continuity of being, the continuous awareness of self, a sense of yourself continuing in time and space. — Frederick Lenz

As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture. — Leon Trotsky

Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men. — Amity Shlaes

I have done extensive research and, almost universally, found that the people who view my blurbs and observations as "anti-family" are dicks. — Jim Gaffigan