Aniquated Quotes

#1. In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and infrastructure, on its already tenuous livability, overrides any aesthetic ... Art becomes worthless in a city brutalized by overdevelopment.

Ada Louise Huxtable

#2. The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Rivka Galchen

#3. Olympic organizers are reportedly struggling to fill rows and rows of empty seats. Empty seats! In fact, yesterday officials put out a casting call asking for 200 Europeans or eight Americans.

Conan O'Brien

#4. Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Here, I stole it for you. Why don't you tell me what it's for."
"Aw, Sophronia, how thoughtful. You brought me a present!

Gail Carriger

#6. My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.

Robert Anton Wilson

#7. Tyrants are but the spawn of Ignorance, Begotten by the slaves they trample on.

James Russell Lowell

#8. Superheroes are make-believe."
"Oh yeah?" Lula said. "What about God?"
"Hmmmm.

Janet Evanovich

#9. The key to success in any area of life is to first know and master the area of focus. Cures to disease have been found, since time immemorial, by studying how the body functions as well as how the disease affects the sick. Seek depth in knowledge and research.

Archibald Marwizi

#10. Be the first to bring fun into a situation and you're the charismatic leader.

Charlie Houpert

#11. I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.

Wesley Snipes

#12. My first coherent thought was, It's raining. This must be Scotland.

Diana Gabaldon