Sir John Lubbock Quotes & Sayings

My courage and my resolution is firm; but my hopes fluctuate, and my spirits are often depressed. — Mary Shelley

Love is the binding force of the universe. It is an ongoing flow that unites all of creation. — Victor Shamas

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. Failing to renew 'Terra Nova' is shortsighted, as myopic as it would have been to scrap the Hubble. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television. — Stephen Lang

If my relation to each and every peasant in Cambodia is indeed exactly what the principles of morality would demand it to be, it's a miraculous coincidence, because it takes a lot of effort to behave correctly in regard to my friends, and from one end of the year to another I never give those peasants a single thought. — Wallace Shawn

The way people behave towards each other is a measure of their value as human beings. — Lynne Truss

If nobody loved, the sun would go out. — Victor Hugo

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called. — David Mamet

Christmas
Silence in the time
The first snow fell in your laughter
Childlike anticipation
Christmas is in your heart — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

I'm a curious guy. I can't turn away from an investigative story, when it comes to the forensic analysis. I've done 33 dives, to the titanic wreck site. I've spent over 50 hours piloting robotic vehicles at that wreck trying to piece together what happened during the disaster. How the ship broke up, comparing the historical record with the forensic record. Documentaries are kind of my new life. I love documentary filmmaking. — James Cameron

The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure. — Oliver Goldsmith

The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces. — Peter C Bunnell

Whoever pushes America's sex button must be prepared for sirens and alarms. Whatever else we do in our lives will be drowned out by them. — Erica Jong

I represent boxing. I represent the old school. That's me. — James Toney