Whitehallsd Quotes & Sayings

When you can classify something, it helps pin it down into a thing you can handle instead of a nameless dread. — Megan Kearney

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers. — Jamais Cascio

Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est.
The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death. — Seneca The Younger

I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk. — Agatha Christie

If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work. — A.R. Rahman

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming. — Penn Jillette

I ran away from three different boarding schools before joining a circus school, and eventually I became an actor. The only thing I learned at boarding school was never to send my child to one. — Vincent Cassel

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding. — Dave Chappelle

When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises. — Lao-Tzu

I love you more than myself, more than my own family, for Christ's sake. I don't want to take another step in this world without you next to me, — Penelope Douglas

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for. — Albert Dietrich

Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.' — Scott Turow

I will fly, alone. Wearing my own pair of goggles, my view of the world just as unique, just as wonderful, and his was, but different. Mine. — Melanie Benjamin

We need enthusiasm, imagination and the ability to face facts, even unpleasant ones, bravely. We need to correct, by drastic means if necessary, the faults in our economic system from which we now suffer. We need the courage of the young. Yours is not the task of making your way in the world, but the task of remaking the world which you will find before you. May every one of us be granted the courage, the faith and the vision to give the best that is in us to that remaking! — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The modern scientific method in which experiments form part of a structured system of hypothesis, experimentation, and analysis is as recent as the seventeenth century; the problem-solving technology of cooking goes back thousands of years. — Bee Wilson