Swipes Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Is it necessary to say what my first impression was when I looked at my visitor's card? Surely not! My sister having married a foreigner, there was but one impression that any man in his senses could possibly feel. Of course the Count had come to borrow money of me.
"Louis," I said, "do you think he would go away if you gave him five shillings? — Wilkie Collins

I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza. — Henry Rollins

Some special conpanies see trust as the pulic good. — Dan Ariely

I never knew where I was going, but I ripped the tits off of everything that got in my way. By the time they figured me out, it was too late. — Hunter S. Thompson

The good and the evil resulting from our words and deeds go on apportioning themselves, one assumes in a reasonably uniform and balanced way, throughout all the days to follow, including those endless days, when we shall not be here to find out, to congratulate ourselves or ask for pardon, indeed there are those who claim that this is the much-talked-of immortality, Possibly, but this man is dead and must be buried. — Jose Saramago

The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Effective altruism is about asking "How can I make the biggest difference I can?" and using evidence and careful reasoning to try to find an answer. It takes a scientific approach to doing good. Just as science consists of the honest and impartial attempt to work out what's true, and a committment to believe the truth whatever that turns out to be. As the phrase suggests, effective altruism consists of the honest and impartial attempt to work out what's best for the world, and a commitment to do what's best, whatever that turns out to be. — William MacAskill

Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression. — Philip Wylie

I started acting as a kid and doing advertising campaigns. I was probably 8 years old, and I really liked the attention. — Michiel Huisman

Like was not about getting what you wanted, it was about living with what you needed — R.K. Lilley

Nirvana has nothing do with any of this. None of this is there. — Frederick Lenz

I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid. — John W. Thompson

There's a choice?"
"Always. It's the outcome that sadly limits things. — Janny Wurts

Rock, for all the power of its individual dreams, is still confined by its mass cultural form. Its history, like the history of America itself, is a history of class struggle--the struggle for fun. — Simon Frith

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. — Logan Pearsall Smith