Publius Tacitus Quotes & Sayings

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. — Peter Stuyvesant

A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton. — Benjamin Franklin

Anything I run across can light up the circuitry of my brain, and set me on an adventure. To research strains of yeast; hiccup fetishists; the proper use of inverse, obverse, converse and reverse; the ratio of main narrative to tangent, of forward action to aside. What else do we do but quest, pursue meaning in the information wash? Where does that storm sewer opening from the river into the city's underneath go to, anyhow? I grab a headlamp and head in. It's long and low and dark and stinks and extends for miles. Underneath the city is another city. The one above begins to disappear. That's what we're after, isn't it? To disappear? To venture into darkness, to let what we know or think we know recede for an hour, a day, a novel's length, and see what meaning can be made of what remains? — Ander Monson

A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge. — Harbhajan Singh

The Necromancer's Tower squatted over the river like an incontinent titan. — Yahtzee Croshaw

Muslims are a part of the fabric of this country. By the way, they always have been, and more so now than ever. — Steve King

I fear liars, and I fear tricksters, and worst I fear the bitter truth. And so I rule my country well. Because only fear rules men. Nothing else works. Nothing else lasts long enough. — Ursula K. Le Guin

So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist - and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish. — Bram Stoker

I want to make sure everybody who has a job wants a job. — George H. W. Bush

I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake. — Rene Descartes

I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era. — Andy Grove

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different. — Isabella Rossellini

The hatred of relatives is the most violent. — Publius Cornelius Tacitus

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity ... by actually talking with them. — Daphne Koller

I continued to wonder what exactly I had done to deserve a woman like Valerie. Nothing, probably. I observe the world as it unfurls, I thought; proceeding empirically, in good faith, I observe it; I can do no more than observe. — Michel Houellebecq

This was dangerous talk - in these enlightened times, a wise woman would never be too clever. The accusation of witchcraft had rid many men of an ugly wife and yet more women of an attractive rival. — Joss Alexander