You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
Jon Stewart born 1962
born 1962
Entire Collection
Men's maxims reveal their character.
1715 - 1747
Gross, J. (1983). The Oxford book of aphorisms. Oxford University Press.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
1821 - 1881
Crime and Punishment (1866)
There was a young lady named Bright, Whose speed was far faster than light; She set out one day In a relative way And returned on the previous night.
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller 1874 - 1944
1874 - 1944
That tomorrow should come and that I should be there.
1899 - 1961
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse...it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving 1783 - 1859
1783 - 1859
There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it …
born 1965
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973
1881 - 1973
Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others.
Pablo Picasso 1881 - 1973
1881 - 1973
You should call it entropy for the reason that no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage.
John von Neumann 1903 - 1957
1903 - 1957
Amid the vastness of the things among which we live, the existence of nothingness holds the first place; its function extends over all things that have no existence, and its essence, as regards time, lies precisely between the past and the future, and has nothing in the present. This nothingness has the part equal to the whole, and the whole to the part, the divisible to the indivisible; and the product of the sum is the same whether we divide or multiply, and in addition as in subtraction; as is proved by arithmeticians by their tenth figure which represents zero; and its power has not extension among the things of Nature.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
Let the scintillations of your wit be like the coruscations of summer lightning, lambent but innocuous.
Meyrick Goulburn 1818 - 1897
1818 - 1897
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
Jack Henry Abbott 1944 - 2002
1944 - 2002
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as out 'creations', are simply our notes of our observations.
G. H. Hardy 1877 - 1947
1877 - 1947
If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space.
1934 - 1996
Paraphrasing Thomas Carlyle
Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger.
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
1879 - 1955
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
1903 - 1950
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
H. L. Mencken 1880 - 1956
1880 - 1956
The individual act of obedience is the cornerstone not only of the strength of authoritarian society but also of its weakness.
1932 - 2007
The Illuminatus Trilogy
They’re only truly great who are truly good.
1865 - 1903
‘Revenge for Honour’ Oxford dictionary of quotations
The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden 1907 - 1973
1907 - 1973
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.
Bill Bryson born 1951
born 1951
What am I, other than a chance in the infinite probabilities of not having been!
1911 - 1995
The Book of Delusions (1936)
You are blinded by the love of the office you hold, Cornelius! You place too much importance, and you always have done, on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognise that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
born 1965
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy 1917 - 1963
1917 - 1963