Thomas Dye Quotes & Sayings

The big scandal around IG Farben this week is the unlucky subsidiary Spottbilligfilm AG, whose entire management are about to be purged for sending to OKW weapons procurement a design proposal for a new airborne ray which could turn whole populations, inside a ten-kilometer radius, stone blind. An IG review board caught the scheme in time. Poor Spottbilligfilm. It had slipped their collective mind what such a weapon would do to the dye market after the next war. — Thomas Pynchon

We must remember that life begins at home and we must also remember that the future of humanity passes through the family — Mother Teresa

I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me. — Spike Jonze

The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come — Peter Ustinov

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves. — Abdullah Ibrahim

His eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife. — Arundhati Roy

You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara)
You don't ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When you are in a common boat, cross the river peacefully together. — Hillary Rodham Clinton

We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation. — Cesar Chavez

MEXICAN PURPLE Although the source of this exclusive dye was long a Phoenician trade secret, by the time of the classical Greeks it was known to be manufactured from a gland of the murex sea snail. Surprisingly, while traveling in Mexico in the 1830s, Thomas Gage observed that traditional purple dye manufacture there used the same techniques to create dye from the same sea snails.95 — S.C. Compton

The cloud shadows of midnight possess their own repose ... — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tradition is the crown of the tyrant. — Pierce Brown

The fructe of all the servise that I serve
Dispaire doth repe, such haples hap have I ;
But tho he have no powre to make me swarve,
Yet by the fire for colde I fele I dye :
In paradis for hunger still I sterve :
And in the flowde for thurste to deth I drye ;
So Tantalus ane I and yn worse payne,
Amyds my helpe, and helples doth remayne. — Thomas Wyatt

School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business. — KSI

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course. — Clyde Tombaugh