Newsnight Trumps Mafia Quotes & Sayings

All Egyptians, not only the protestors, have broken through the fear barrier, therefore I expect only one outcome - protests will continue until Mubarak steps down from power. — Asmaa Mahfouz

I like the fact that there is challenge. — Keren Ann

I always have to dream up there against the stars. If I don't dream I will make it, I won't even get close. — Henry J. Kaiser

Dana was what Steve called a "silent partner" in the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency. Being a silent partner meant that Dana didn't carry a business card, that his name didn't appear on the company letterhead, and he wanted nothing to do with the Brixton Brothers Detective Agency. — Mac Barnett

What a sense of possession, of confidence, it gave one to have pockets, to shove one's fists into them, as if in simply owning pockets one owned riches, owned independence. — Anita Desai

That was interesting, to find that it wasn't hunger that caused children to become bullies on the street. The bulliness was already in the child, and whatever the stakes were, they would find a way to act as they needed to act. ... Intelligence and education, which all these children had, apparently didn't make any important difference in human nature. — Orson Scott Card

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet. — Annie Dillard

Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse our desire to compare our narrative to someone else's, to give ourselves permission to speculate upon a person's private space, or life, with no fear of recourse or punishment. — Julie Wilson

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. — Charles Baudelaire

Anyone would be lucky to be involved with you. I'm lucky you kissed me. So fucking lucky. — Chanel Cleeton

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present. — Don Hertzfeldt