Prince Von Metternich Quotes & Sayings

It's extremely damaging to a fair trial to have people reaching judgment about the case in the newspapers and on the radio before the facts are heard in a case. — Bill James

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost — Eleanor Catton

Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A
particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular
pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye
all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the
massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring. — G.K. Chesterton

As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy. — Norman Granz

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start. — Bill Dedman

Three hundred years ago, during the Age of Enlightenment, the coffee house became the center of innovation. — Peter Diamandis

Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare ... a big, thick book with an elegant cover ... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare. — Carter Ratcliff

Why read on? Why pick up their book from the far wall where it has been thrown away in disgust and pain, and read on? Why submit to such cruelty, such bad karma, such bad plotting? The reason is simple: these things happened. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow. — Suzanne Selfors

Concision is the sister of talent. — Ken Follett

If it be a sign of mourning," replied Mr. Hooper, "I, perhaps, like most other mortals, have sorrows dark enough to be typified by a black veil. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent. — Madeleine L'Engle

I am a nightmare to most, and a dream for the broken; who am I?' and the answer to that is death." "Correct. — Roshani Chokshi

You can't dance cheerfully. Dancing is too important. It can be wild or solemn or gay or lewd or art for art's sake, but it can't be cheerful. — Rex Stout

Nobody should have the right to eavesdrop, or you become a totalitarian state - the kind of state I escaped as a kid to come to this country where you have democracy and freedom of speech. — Jan Koum