Paul Avrich Quotes & Sayings

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything. — Andrew Young

We never want to go into a tour and play 15 songs and say 'Enjoy.' We have messages: Number 1, follow your dreams. If I can do it, you can do it. Number 2, give your life to something. We say, 'Volunteer and add seven years to your life.' You can have your own personal ministry. The message we have is 'What do you stand for?' — John Tesh

Can a physicist visualize an electron? The electron is materially inconceivable and yet, it is so perfectly known through its effects that we use it to illuminate our cities, guide our airlines through the night skies and take the most accurate measurements. What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electrons as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the ground that they cannot conceive Him? — Wernher Von Braun

Memory, like love, is an act of imagination, an abandonment and a possession. — Susan Dodd

Who says that? Who the hell uses the word ravishing? Douchebags - that's who. — Emma Chase

I really think Canada should get over to Iraq as quickly as possible. — Paul Martin

In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by making another thing which will be even bigger than the last thing ... and it is part of the pathology of being an architect to believe thus, and they do believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary. — Jonathan Meades

Fiction ... It's like goading a mongoose and a cobra into battle and staying with them to see who wins. — Shauna Singh Baldwin