John Fiske Quotes
Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?

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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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He who can believe himself well, will be well.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are.
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But how shall I excuse it? There are things done which are as holy as the heavens, - which are clear before God as the light of the sun, which leave no stain on the conscience, and which yet the malignity of man can invest with the very blackness of hell!
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Oh, a trouble's a ton, or a trouble's an ounce Or a trouble is what you make it, And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts, But only how did you take it.
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Usually, there's nothing being thrown toward the stage or at me. Then I feel pretty good about it.
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Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery?