Appending Quotes

#1. The custom of prefixing or appending to historical narratives an estimate of the character and personality of the principal agent is of doubtful advantage at the best of times - it either imparts a specious unity to the action or permits apology or condemnation on moral and emotional grounds.

Ronald Syme

#2. You are allowed to draw lines even if your feelings are irrational. Part of the marvelous business of being an adult human is that you get to set your own boundaries for whatever reasons you like, without appending a sensible rationale to them.

Mallory Ortberg

#3. My wife comes from a foodie family so I've been indoctrinated into that. I had sweetbreads the other night, and I have to say, not my favorite thing in the world You're eating a gland.

Armie Hammer

#4. It recognizes no morality but a sham morality meant for deceit, no honor even among thieves and of a thievish sort, no force but physical force, no intellectual power but cunning, no disgrace but failure, no crime but stupidity.

Woodrow Wilson

#5. A 'sin' is something which is not necessary.

George Gurdjieff

#6. In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive

Marlene Dietrich

#7. I wanted to do something nobody ever did. This goes hand in hand with my goal of changing swimming.

Michael Phelps

#8. Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#9. No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.

Kathryn Stockett

#10. The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert.

John Von Neumann

#11. It's funny: I like being surprised as a reader, so it's difficult for me to spoil my own stuff.

Marc Guggenheim

#12. I put the hamburger on the assembly line.

Ray Kroc

#13. Write not what you wan to say but what you need to say

Anonymous