Babel Fish Quotes

#1. It's translating for you. It's a Babel fish. Look it up in the book if you like.

Douglas Adams

#2. If you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language.

Douglas Adams

#3. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation.

Douglas Adams

#4. Do we fear death or that of arriving at its door before we are ready?

James R. Paddock

#5. Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

Eric Alterman

#6. Differences in experience, points of view and opinions aren't what pulls us apart. It's what pulls us together.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#7. Occasionally the three days will lapse without the FBI completing its background check. When that happens, a buyer, who has waited the three days, can purchase and pick up a gun without the completed background check. That's what

Antaeus

#8. I thought perhaps that when you told me you did not love me that my own feelings would fall away and atrophy, but they have not. They have grown every day. I love you now more desperately, this moment, than I have ever loved you before, and in an hour I will love you more than that

Cassandra Clare

#9. If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#10. Pretending to feel something you don't can often lead you to the real thing, in some form.

Stacey Kade

#11. On the flip side, I enjoy covering the Arab world, I've spent my entire career here in the Middle East, but I would never call myself a war correspondent.

Anthony Shadid

#12. Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

Amedeo Modigliani

#13. As part of my Christmas present I'd be giving chickens to a family in Nepal through the Heifer Foundation. I think they expanded my world when I was young to know sort of the other issues that were going on globally.

Serinda Swan

#14. We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off.

Mark Twain

#15. You measure peace with guns, progress in megatons. Who's left when the war is won?

Jackson Browne

#16. There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.

William Carlos Williams