Athenaeum Quotes

#1. The Athenaeum always managed to have a scribe on hand whenever anything interesting seemed like it might happen. Durham avoided scribes, figuring that 'interesting' was not a word that was necessarily synonymous with 'pleasant'.

Jeffery Russell

#2. Upon the present occasion London was full of clergymen. The specially clerical clubs, the Oxford and Cambridge, the Old University, and the Athenaeum, were black with them.

Anthony Trollope

#3. Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Denis Leary

#4. I'm coming for you, Angel, and make no mistake, I plan on winning you.

Sarah Curtis

#5. I fell in love with a civilian. Not an actress and not a famous actress at that. Because then the attention doesn't double - it grows exponentially. Because then suddenly everybody wants to be in your bedroom. But I don't really give them anything.

Matt Damon

#6. Who are you?" the boy asked. He examined the stranger from head to toe and made a face. "You're ugly." "And

Claire Legrand

#7. The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#8. Laurence the last time I saw something like you I flushed it away.

Mark A. Cooper

#9. We are in the world to laugh. In purgatory or in hell we shall no longer be able to do so. And in heaven it would not be proper.

Jules Renard

#10. Leadership is less about the position you hold than the influence you have. It's about doing world-class work, playing at your peak,
and leaving people better than you found them. It's about Leading Without a Title.

Robin Sharma

#11. By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

Charlie Chaplin

#12. Freedom is an ally, if used with wisdom.

Amish Tripathi