Quotes About Author

Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.

Do you have to skulk about like that?" "No, I don't suppose I have to skulk about.... I simply enjoy doing so." "Well, it's a very vulgar habit.

It is not about laws, tactics, and equipment, but instead, the people behind the badge and the human performance factors that influence them.

Like hatred, jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Memory entering the head like a knife. A girl's hands slicing the heart in two.

It's more common to ignore the epidemic of punitive parenting and focus instead on the occasional example of permissiveness—sometimes even to the point of pronouncing an entire generation spoiled. It's revealing, and even somewhat amusing, that similar alarms probably have been raised about every generation throughout recorded history.

The research suggests that praise may have [a negative, unintended] effect, directing attention away from the task [at hand] and toward your reaction.

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

We should be sorry to be thought guilty of dogmatism, and there is always peril in generalizations.

If Conservatism may, in a non-party sense, claim Shakespeare as an authority in its favor, in Milton, on the other hand, I suppose Liberalism again in a non-party sense would recognize a support.

It is not the business of a man of letters to take his politics either from a Monarch or a Mob, or to push his fortunes—slightly to alter a celebrated phrase—by those services which demagogues render to crowds.

In Shakespeare, as we might have expected, the masculine note and the feminine note are heard in perfect harmony.

Shakespeare was compounded of too many and too large elements to have been a poet only.

Thats me, he said, motioning to the robot. Thats all of us. We prattle about free will, but were nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.

History is a novel for which the people is the author.

I own guns because it's my right, it's my Second Amendment right, and no one in Washington gave me that right; it's a natural right confirmed by the very people that founded this nation.

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington.

Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end.

I'm running because Hoosiers deserve a senator who makes promises here in Indiana and then keeps them in Washington.

I kept telling everyone I wasn't going to Washington to stay. I go to visit.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.