Owen Wister Quotes
When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
Owen Wister
Quotes to Explore
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Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
Barry Humphries
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We have large armies, well disciplined and appointed, with commanders inferior to none in military skill, and superior in activity and zeal. We are furnished with arsenals and stores beyond our most sanguine expectations.
Samuel Adams
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The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
Larry Page
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Modesto tamen et circumspecto iudicio de tantis viris pronuntiandum est, ne, quod plerisque accidit, damnent quae non intellegunt.
Quintilian
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
Wallace Stevens
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Most enlightened men now recognize that General Jackson is not fitted to fill the office of President; his limited experience of anything to do with civil government and his great age make him incompetent.
Jared Sparks
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It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.
Baden Powell
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He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world.
Hilary Mantel
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I have played a few lay saints in my time.
Pauline Collins
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
Vanessa Kerry
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When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.
Owen Wister