Philipon Quotes & Sayings

I had to restrain myself from buying a book on 19th-century fruit knives. — Susanna Clarke

When privacy is criminalized,
only criminals will have privacy. — Daniel Suarez

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices. — Hill Harper

Ministry of magic?' bellowed Uncle Vernon. 'People like you in government? Oh this explains everything, everything, no wonder the country's going to the dogs ... — J.K. Rowling

It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends. — Caitlin Moran

Massachusetts, like Queen Elizabeth, encouraged salt making through the granting of monopolies to those who showed the skill to produce salt cheaply. The colony granted Samuel Winslow a ten-year monopoly to employ his ideas on salt producing, which is considered the first patent issued in America. — Mark Kurlansky