Antedated Quotes

#1. PRE-ADAMITE, n. One of an experimental and apparently unsatisfactory race of antedated Creation ... Little its known of them beyond the fact that they supplied Cain with a wife and theologians with a controversy.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

Imogen Heap

#3. But if that's Olham, then I must be ...

Philip K. Dick

#4. It is remarkable, that persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thoughts alone suffice them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. By encouraging men to spy and report on one another, by making it in the private interest of large numbers of citizens to evade the controls, and by making actions illegal that are in the public interest, the controls undermine individual morality.

Milton Friedman

#6. I see the world, it makes me puke,
But then I look at you and know,
that somewhere there's a someone who can soothe me.

Morrissey

#7. I still get weirded out when people recognise me.

Tom Hopper

#8. Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book ... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

Stendhal

#9. Literature is a mystical place for me. It's not dry. It's where miracles happen.

John Darnielle

#10. Nothing in the universe is impermeable to the flow of love.

Victor Shamas

#11. I always liked the idea of the guitar - because cowboys played the guitar.

Tom Petty

#12. This is the most exciting study there is. It is the only thing I know of in life that makes you feel consistently better, whether it's success or failure, whether they love you or hate you.

Frederick Lenz

#13. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Edward FitzGerald