Wildcard Double Quotes & Sayings

The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus "miracles" attested to, and scapegoats
such as Jews or witches
hunted down and burned. — Christopher Hitchens

What's wrong with a bit of nostalgia between friends? I think nostalgia sometimes gets too much of a bad press. — Terry Eagleton

The reason why Broken Men only became Untouchables was because in addition to being Buddhists, they retained their habit of beef-eating, which gave additional ground for offence to the Brahmins to carry their new-found love and reverence to the cow to its logical conclusion. — B.R. Ambedkar

In the Negro melodies of America I find all that is needed for a great and noble school of music. — Antonin Dvorak

Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

It's not important in life what happens to you, but how you handle what happens to you. — Zelda La Grange

I think damage to the eye or damage to the teeth is one of the most universally cringing things you can do in a movie and these are very fragile sounds. — Guillermo Del Toro