Quotes About Quote

My dreams are all of fire – mother says dreams usually go by opposites, so does that mean the world will end in ice?

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

MONDEGREEN. A term for misheard song lyrics, coined by American freelance writer Sylvia Wright (1920–1961) in 1954. It derived from her long-held belief that a song contained the line, "They had slain the Earl of Moray and Lady Mondegreen." In fact, the line ended with the words, "and laid him on the green.

There has never been a Supreme Court ruling on the admissibility of polygraph evidence in federal court.

Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity the involuntary reflex of fear

Quote may seem a bit of a foreign concept, because few other languages have anything like it. It's closely tied to one of the most distinctive features of Lisp: code and data are made out of the same data structures, and the quote operator is the way we distinguish between them.

If you want to make money, you tend to be forced to work on problems that are too nasty for anyone to solve for free.

If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.

Why is it so hard to say clearly that privatization would worsen, not improve, Social Security's finances?

It's obvious, it's wrong, and anyway they said it years ago.

If your theories prove to be a floccinaucinihilipilification." "A flossy…what?" "Sorry. Such an ostentatious, academic word. If your theories prove to be valueless, where are you then?

This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

Blessed are the insulted and the shat upon,' Barbie said. 'For they shall inherit the kingdom of Heaven, which is currently under offer with vacant possession.

I do not love thee, Dr Fell, the reason why I cannot tell.

The extraterrestrials explained that there are more than 80 different extraterrestrial civilizations interacting within our solar system, all of which have gone through an evolutionary process.

Borges, who said, "Defeat has a dignity which noisy victory does not deserve.

Don't write," he said, seeing me scribbling into my notebook, taking me for a journalist.

if I promised to put my notebook on the floor and my pen in my pocket. And he suggested that I sit back and not gape out the window.

The consequence is that Mexico pays "a disproportionate share of the cost of the American gun and drug habits

I mentioned that I had just come from a tour in Boys' Town. "That's very risky," Jaime Arispe said. "You have no rights there, because it's a Zona de Tolerancia. They have their own police.

The Peace Corps was innocent and inefficient, and we weren't under any pressure to join.

The insecurity in Juárez drifted through the air like the memory of a shattering dream.

Business is bad, but at least it's quiet here," Ignacio, a shoeshine man, said to me in the plaza at Reynosa, brushing goop on my shoes.

the gringos of McAllen stayed at home