I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
1934 - 2018
Title of short story Galaxy Publishing Corp, 1967
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The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
David Attenborough born 1926
born 1926
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
Horace 65 - 8 BC
65 - 8 BC
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
1915 - 2002
Speech in London, 16 December 1970
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
David Attenborough born 1926
born 1926
Fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.
Milan Kundera 1929 - 2023
1929 - 2023
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
Henry Fielding 1707 - 1754
1707 - 1754
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
1854 - 1900
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste
William Shakespeare 1564 - 1616
Used in 'Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy' (2017). With thanks to C-Lee
1564 - 1616
Used in 'Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy' (2017). With thanks to C-Lee
There are three stages in scientific discovery. First, people deny that it is true, then they deny that it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.
born 1951
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Is not the pleasure of feeling and exhibiting power over other beings, a principal part of the gratification of cruelty?
John Fletcher 1579 - 1625
1579 - 1625
Oppositions don't win elections; governments lose them.
All our institutions, our traditional attitudes, our laws, our morals, our customs, give evidence of the fact that they are determined and maintained by privileged males for the glory of male domination. These institutions reach out into the very nurseries and have a great influence upon the child’s soul.
Alfred Adler 1870 - 1937
As Quoted In: Shapiro, F. (2006). The Yale book of quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press.
1870 - 1937
As Quoted In: Shapiro, F. (2006). The Yale book of quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Welcome, all wonders in one sight! Eternity shut in a span.
Richard Crashaw c. 1613 - 1649
c. 1613 - 1649
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
J. M. Barrie 1860 - 1937
1860 - 1937
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978)
1952 - 2001
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy ‘‘Fit the Fifth’’ (radio program) (1978)
The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.
Arthur Honegger 1892 - 1955
1892 - 1955
Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
Eleanor Farjeon 1881 - 1965
1881 - 1965
A great book is like great evil.
Callimachus c. 305 - 240 BC
c. 305 - 240 BC
Happy birthday to you.
Credited with writing the original lyrics to “Good Morning to All,” while her sister Mildred J. Hill composed the melody. The tune later became popular as "Happy Birthday to You".
Credited with writing the original lyrics to “Good Morning to All,” while her sister Mildred J. Hill composed the melody. The tune later became popular as "Happy Birthday to You".
The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.
1929 - 2018
The Other Wind (2001)
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.'
born 1965
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The mass of mankind is ruled not by its intermittent moral sensations, still less by self-interest, but by the need of the moment.
born 1948
Straw Dogs
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal." She thought it over. "They can't do that," she said finally. "It's the one thing they can't do. They can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you." "No," he said a little more hopefully, "no; that's quite true. They can't get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.
1903 - 1950
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg.
See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.
Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
1952 - 2001