1666 Book Quotes

#1. Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

Samuel Johnson

#2. I wouldn't exactly describe her as strictly beautiful. She knocked me out, though.

J.D. Salinger

#3. Backyard barbecues are really just about getting together. It's all about making people come over, having a really good time, talking about their lives, and sharing some great recipes.

G. Garvin

#4. If you're lucky enough to fall in love, that's one thing. Otherwise all that was ever truly beautiful to me was boyhood. It's the meal we sup on for the rest of our lives. Love puts the icing on life. But if you don't find it ... you must call on your childhood memories over and over till you do.

Leon Uris

#5. The most powerful presence in the room is his absence.

Claudia Gray

#6. The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.

Claude Debussy

#7. My work expresses an infatuation with human beings. I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

Rebecca West

#8. For even if the allotted space of life be short, it is long enough in which to live honorably and well.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#9. I like playing guys where it's as important what they're thinking as what they're saying. Those are the people I like playing, and the actor that I strive to be. I like actors who work in that area and I like parts that allow me to work in that area.

Lennie James

#10. Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

Bill Maris

#11. Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.

Newt Gingrich

#12. Who is all-powerful in the world? Who is most dreadful in the world? The machine. Who is most fair, most wealthy, and all-wise? The machine. What is the earth? A machine. What is the sky? A machine. What is man? A machine. A machine.

Leonid Andreyev

#13. If you work hard you will succeed.

Shahid

#14. Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

Carol Ann Duffy

#15. The easiest job in the world has to be coroner. Surgery on dead people. What's the worst thing that could happen? If everything went wrong, maybe you'd get a pulse.

Dennis Miller