Trinculo Quotes & Sayings

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. — George Bernard Shaw

...[A]nd I'll be wiser hereafter
And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass
Was I to take this drunkard for a god
And worship this dull fool!
---Caliban speaking of Stephano and Trinculo
(lines 298 -301). — William Shakespeare

First, it is clear that Christ died to procure for us an actual reconciliation with God, and not only a power for us to be reconciled unto him; for 'when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,' Rom. v. 10. — John Owen

Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten? He had an intuitive feeling, growing rapidly, that what he had stumbled on was no small gimmick. It went far beyond. How far, he didn't know. — Robert M. Pirsig

Everything went pitch-black and the next thing I knew, I was being hurled headfirst out of the room!"
"And you didn't see that coming?" said Harry, unable to help himself.
"No, I did not, as I say, it was pitch - " Professor Trelawny stopped and glared at him suspiciously. — J.K. Rowling

Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. — Solon

It's only the beginning. Chase me if you like. Perhaps, if you remain interesting, I'll even let you catch me. — A.A. Aguirre

Thou art very Trinculo indeed! How cam'st thou to be seize of this moon calf? Can he vent Trinculos? — William Shakespeare

Gay diversity is like the Village People. You can all wear different stupid outfits as long as you sing the same stupid song. — Jack Malebranche

All history involves selection, and it is always human beings who do the selecting. — N. T. Wright

A DARK MATTER is a page-turning thriller of every sort: psychological, sociological, epistemological . Plus, it's really scary. — Lorrie Moore

The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly. — Mark Steyn

Out of the numbers proceeds that harmony of natural law which it is the aim of science to disclose. We can grasp the tune but not the player. Trinculo might have been referring to modern physics in the words: 'This is the tune of our catch, played by the picture of Nobody. — Arthur Stanley Eddington

Credit-default swaps, I think, have serious problems associated with them. — Alan Greenspan

Too often, people hear the word "theory" and they think it to mean "an idea which has not been proven." They will tell you that a theory is the opposite of a "fact." But it is more accurate to say that a theory is an idea which has not been disproven, and a fact (in the historical sense) is just a theory that most everybody agrees with. — Simon Trinculo

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts. — Barbara Kingsolver