1590 Quotes

#1. I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe.

Deborah Harkness

#2. Everybody had been in their twenties then; well, round about thirty. Now, from round about seventy, all those years of maturity or the prime of life or whatever you called it looked like an interval between two bouts of vomiting.

Kingsley Amis

#3. All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game being the discovery of the totally unexpected.

Hugh Nibley

#4. We didn't know ... the reality of who those people were.

Jennifer Brown

#5. Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

George Orwell

#6. I would be a winner because I was a loser! That's right. I dream of failure every night of my life, and that's my secret. To makeit in this rat race you have to dream of failing every day. I mean, that is reality.

Donald Freed

#7. If you're unhappy, change something.

Sue Grafton

#8. We learned that what happens when we are alone with the Lord determines how intimate and deep the worship will be when we come together.

John Wimber

#9. His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Terry Pratchett

#10. I love the image of the Holy Spirit enfolding the world in her wings, caring for it the way that a mother holds her baby close.

Tim Muldoon

#11. In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process

Isaac Asimov

#12. The way to stop political correctness is to not do it. If someone says, You offended me then you say I don't care! If they're offended by the truth, that's their issue!

Brad Stine

#13. Then a homeless man with a dog approached us and put his hand out. This happens to be something that I have a real problem with: homeless people with pets who approach you for food when they have a perfectly delicious dog standing right there?

Chelsea Handler