1310 The Ticket Quotes

#1. I have believed for many years that Oscar Peterson is not only the greatest pianist in jazz today, but the greatest it has ever known.

Gene Lees

#2. There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

Jeremy S. Anderson

#3. Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?

Bill Watterson

#4. I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.

Ed Balls

#5. The minister is the parish clock. Many people take their time from him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. Not poppy, nor mandrake, Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep, Which thou owest yesterday.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#7. Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

Orson Welles

#8. I bid the chords sweet music make,
And all must follow in my wake.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

Benjamin Franklin

#10. That is why diplomats smile: it is not hypocrisy - it is a sort of metaphysical awareness of the human impossibility of their task.

Charles Malik

#11. Finally, when someone asked [Pollack] how he knew when a painting was finished, he replied, How do you know when you've finished making love?

Ross Wetzsteon

#12. There is no planet B. We have to take care of the one we have

Richard Branson

#13. It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

Lev Grossman

#14. For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

Adolf Hitler