Quotients Quotes & Sayings

What is MTV doing and what is the hegemonic culture industry promoting in gangsta rap? It is the glorification of violence for the sake of violence, the violence itself, like consumption for the sake of consumption, hypermasculinity writ-large with an adapted potency. — Bocafloja

It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned. — Jacob Bronowski

For the man in the paddock, whose duty is is to sweep up manure,
the supreme terror is the possibility of a world without horses. To
tell him that it is disgusting to spend one's life shoveling up hot
turds is a piece of imbecility. A man can get to love shit if his
livelihood depends on it, if his happiness is involved. — Henry Miller

Whisper a dangerous secret to someone you care about. Now they have the power to destroy you, but they won't. This is what love is. — Cecil Baldwin

I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning. — Katy Perry

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum. — Buzz Aldrin

She looked at me with gentle indignation. She was what we have after sixty million years of the Cenozoic. There were a lot of random starts and dead ends. Those big plated pea-brain lizards didn't make it. Sharks, scorpions and cockroaches, as living fossils, are lasting pretty well. Savagery, venom and guile are good survival quotients. This forked female mammal didn't seem to have enough tools. One night in the swamps would kill her. Yet behind all that fragility was a marvelous toughness. A Junior Allen was less evolved. He was a skull-cracker, two steps away from the cave. They were at the two ends of our bell curve, with all the rest of us lumped in the middle. If the trend is still supposed to be up, she was of the kind we should breed, accepting sensitivity as a strength rather than a weakness. But there is too much Junior Allen seed around. — John D. MacDonald

Though films become more daring sexually, they are probably less sexy than they ever were. There haven't been any convincing love scenes or romances in the movies in a while. (Nobody even seems to neck in theaters any more.) ... when the mechanics and sadism quotients go up, the movie love interest goes dead, and the film just lies there, giving a certain amount of offense. — Renata Adler

I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity. — BD Wong

Freedom goes hand-in-hand with mutual respect. — Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

And fuck diplomacy. Really, just kick that shit to the curb. This, she thought, is about what I want. — Thea Harrison

Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal. — Jack Zipes