42nd Parallel Quotes

#1. Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#2. The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Alan Blinder

#3. So what have you guys been up to?"
"Nothing, worshipping Satan.

Daniel Clowes

#4. History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

Henry A. Kissinger

#5. I have a simple philosophy: Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches. by Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Claudy Conn

#6. The material memories are not usually part of what is said about a picture, and that is a fault in interpretation because every painting captures a certain resistance of paint, a prodding gesture of the brush, a speed and insistence in the face of mindless matter ...

James Elkins

#7. We have defied the day as it was set out for us.

David Levithan

#8. I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.

Robert Kennedy

#9. She is dark browed, sarcastic and occasionally mean spirited. A knife amongst all this flesh, The kind of woman who starts chaos in strangers all day.

Kate Tempest

#10. Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in his own image, destined to live for ever, and deserving of the utmost reverence and respect.

Pope Francis

#11. New Orleans has a real spirit. It's the most authentic of all American cities.

Brad Pitt

#12. Billy Loes was the only player in the majors who could lose a ground ball in the sun

Joe Garagiola

#13. I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life's work.

Chuck Noll

#14. By far my most popular novel, and one that allows me to join the small company of "respectable" writers whose fiction deals with the American West: Cormac McCarthy, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Tom Lee and a handful of others,

Larry McMurtry

#15. Happy people do not demand a lot from the world because their happiness proceeds from a place deeper than the world can touch.

Alan Cohen