Acuteshop Quotes

#1. when John Locke published his celebrated Letters concerning toleration in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution, he still excluded Roman Catholics and atheists from his proposals, on the grounds that they were enemies to the English state.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#2. In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Jude Law

#3. That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.

Kelley Armstrong

#4. Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.

Sophocles

#5. There's a kind of acting that goes on in my head when I'm writing a character where I put myself in their place.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#6. I've always found that sci-fi fans are unbelievably generous.

Amanda Tapping

#7. Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child's? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.

Alan Turing