Unstopped Movie Quotes & Sayings

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance. — Vijay Seshadri

Like swatting flies with a laser cannon. The aim's a bit tricky, but it sure takes care of the flies. — Lois McMaster Bujold

When I was counsel for the Senate Rackets Committee, about 25% of the important leads which our committee developed came from newspapers. This increased my respect for those courageous newspapers which assisted us. It also caused me to look with wonderment at some of the newspapers that did not. — Robert Kennedy

You never knew what you could get away with until you tried. — Karen Marie Moning

For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
No wonder is a common man should rust
-The Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales- — Geoffrey Chaucer

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
French philosopher and writer. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There will come a respect and dignity for work when the people are being taught. — Sunday Adelaja

Most extreme acts of anti-Semitism go beyond the acts of anti-Semitism by native Europeans. — Manfred Gerstenfeld

Like a firework, a person's life flashed brightest right before expiration. — Katherine McIntyre

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. — Adam Gopnik

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression. — Edward Snowden

That line again. For Ian, a joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hands like a cheap umbrella. — David Nicholls