Alvaston Quotes

#1. Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Federal drug forfeiture laws are one reason, Blumenson and Nilsen note, why state and federal prisons now confine large numbers of men and women who had relatively minor roles in drug distribution networks, but few of their bosses.

Michelle Alexander

#3. The external freedom won't be given to us but in the exact measure as we've known at a given moment, to developing our internal freedom.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#5. Then it suddenly and theatrically began to clean itself in the way cats do when they want you to know what a big deal you aren't.

Adam Rex

#6. I tend to work on the principle that much humour relies on cognitive dissonance - on the foreground not matching the background, on the protagonist's response to a situation being inappropriate, and so on.

Charles Stross