A Quotes
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“Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.”
Source: Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie
“Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.”
“Anyone who bombs is my friend.”
“Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.”
Source: Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation
“Anyone who buys a ticket can just go in there, and I don't like everyone, so I always see concerts as like, I'm going to get punched, I'm going to get elbowed, I'm going to get stepped on, get spilled on, someone's going to hit me with their body odor or something.”
“Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting."”
Source: The Rape of the APE (American Puritan Ethic): The Official History of the Sex Revolution, 1945-1973: the Obscening of America, an RSVP (redeeming Social Value Pornography) Document
“Anyone who calls my music "impressionist" is an imbecile.”
“Anyone who calls you "little lady" has already excluded you from the set of people worth listening to.”
“Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.”
“Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.”
“Anyone who can be cool about his first visit to the Oval Office has lost so much body heat that rigor mortis is probably about to set in.”
Source: The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, An Inside Account
“Anyone who can be home anywhere really has no home at all.”
Source: Out of Oz
“Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.”
Source: Luther: Selected Political Writings
“Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn't understood it.”
“Anyone who can control your emotions becomes your master. Simple.”
“Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.”
“Anyone who can fail to rejoice in the enticing squish/crunch of a fast-food French fry, or the delight of a warmed piece of grocery-store donut, is living half a life”
Source: Relish: My Life in the Kitchen
“Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.”
Source: The Bridges Of Madison County
“Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.”
Source: Art and illusion: a study in the psychology of pictorial representation
“Anyone who can look me in the eye and say they prefer the story of Moses or Jesus or Mohammed to the life of Socrates is intellectually defective.”
“Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.”
“Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer.”
“Anyone who can read history with both hemispheres of the brain knows that a world comes to an end every instant--the waves of time leave washed up behind themselves only dry memories of a closed & petrified past--imperfect memory, itself already dying & autumnal. And every instant also gives birth to a world--despite the cavillings of philosophers & scientists whose bodies have grown numb--a present in which all impossibilities are renewed, where regret & premonition fade to nothing in one presential hologrammatical psychomantric gesture.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“Anyone who can say and do anything better than
that already done or said anytime, anywhere and considered then the
best, then it is good to state for him that he has a brilliant brain in
his head.”
“Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.”
“Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.”
“Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.”
“Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room.”
“Anyone who can't forgive someone else for screwing up is deluding themselves. Because we've all made mistakes every bit as bad. And we're each praying we'll be forgiven, too.”
Source: Blackout
“Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.”
“Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.”
Source: Job, a Comedy of Justice
“Anyone who can't learn from other people's mistakes simply can't learn, and that;s all there is to it. There is value in the wrong way of doing things. The knowledge gained from errors contributes to our knowledge base.”
“Anyone who can't say blank is deceitful.”
“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate –he has little success in this –but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins, for he sees different (and more) things than do the others; after all, dead as he is in his own lifetime, he is the real survivor. This assumes that he does not need both hands, or more hands than he has, in his struggle against despair.”
Source: Diaries, 1910-1923
“Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.”
Source: The Basic Kafka
“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”
“Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.”
“Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.”
Source: Animal farm: a fairy story
“Anyone who claimed that old age had brought them patience was either lying or senile.”
Source: The Gathering Storm: Book Twelve of the Wheel of Time
“Anyone who claims that all religions are the same betrays not only an ignorance of all religions but also a caricatured view of even the best-known ones. Every religion at its core is exclusive.”
Source: Zacharias 2 in 1-Jesus Among Other Gods & Deliver Us from Evil
“Anyone who claims that the debate is over and the conclusions are firm has a fundamentally unscientific approach to one of the most momentous issues of our time.”
“Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite.”
“Anyone who claims to be intrigued by the "intellectual challenge of the markets" is not a trader. The markets are as intellectually challenging as a fistfight. Ultimately, trading is an exercise in self-mastery and endurance.”
Source: The Mathematics of Money Management: Risk Analysis Techniques for Traders
“Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.”
Source: Starship Troopers
“Anyone who comes into your life, under any circumstances, has something to teach you.”
Source: Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!
“Anyone who comes to grips with the issues raised in The Marrow of Modern Divinity will almost certainly grow by leaps and bounds in understanding three things: the grace of God, the Christian life, and the very nature of the gospel itself.”
“Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.”
“Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other.”
“Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”
Source: He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1
“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”