Provincial Personas Quotes & Sayings

If my goal in life was to not go insane, this sure was not helping me meet my objective. — Bella Forrest

It was Italy after all. People probably hit each other all the time. — Lev Grossman

I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians ... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money. — John Hickenlooper

Our knowledge is very limited; because Nature, too, is shy and slow in our clumsy hands. Some day all this will be better organized, and still better. — H.G.Wells

let's get away from him, go somewhere else.' I — John Grisham

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one of real intelligence will accept anything just because some authority declares it be so. Don't accept the truth of anything you have not confirmed for yourself. — Paul Hoffmann

Steven Fry on The Da Vinci Code-
It is complete loose stoolwater. It is arse-gravy of the worst kind. — Steven Fry

There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here. — Helen Thompson Woolley