Nutshell Tab Quotes & Sayings

Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available space had been claimed by this guest suite. It was situated right in Trinity College, and Richard guessed it had been laid out eight hundred years ago so that noble guests could ride their horses directly into the bedchamber and bring all of their squires and wolfhounds with them too. — Neal Stephenson

There's a lot you can do without words. — Craig McCracken

but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so. — Swami Vivekananda

Verres had Gavius thrown into prison, tortured and crucified, on the specious grounds that he was a spy for Spartacus. Roman citizenship should have protected him from this degrading punishment. So, as he was flogged, the poor man repeatedly cried out, 'Civis Romanus sum' ('I am a Roman citizen'), but to no avail. Presumably, when they chose to repeat this phrase, both Palmerston and Kennedy (see p. 137) must have forgotten that its most famous ancient use was as the unsuccessful plea of an innocent victim under a sentence of death imposed by a rogue Roman governor. — Mary Beard

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. — Le Corbusier

That's the hardest thing about doing sequels - you've lost the element of surprise. — Sylvester Stallone

All photo albums are the same. Just like all dreams are the same. They mean the world to the person who owns them and they're boring as dirt to everybody else. — Gregory Hill

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it. — Mercedes McCambridge