Shortlist Book Quotes & Sayings

What science cannot tell us, mankind cannot know. — Bertrand Russell

Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set. — Charles Caleb Colton

But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day. — Dan Lipinski

All those times I'd broken her heart, and she was still here.
She was still here. — J. Lynn

There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain. — Anasazi Foundation

The Seven are not traitors. And the Sound Realm has been summoned by Octava's Queen to help. — Lucian Bane

Many, if not most, of the difficulties we experience in dealing with government agencies arise from the agencies being part of a fragmented and open political system ... The central feature of the American constitutional system - the separation of powers - exacerbates many of these problems. The governments of the US were not designed to be efficient or powerful, but to be tolerable and malleable. Those who designed these arrangements always assumed that the federal government would exercise few and limited powers. — James Q. Wilson

The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace. — Edgar Quinet

She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself.
When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed. — Jeremy Clarkson

London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up. — Aziz Ansari

Little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime. — Julia McNair Wright