Bailie Bilt Quotes

#1. By the very nature of satire or parody, you have to love and respect your target and respect it enough to understand every aspect of it, so you can more effectively make fun of it.

T. J. Miller

#2. And among them all Taurus Antinor, praefect of Rome, with his ruddy hair and bronzed skin, his massive frame clad in gorgeously embroidered tunic.

Orczy Emmuska Baroness

#3. I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

Mandy Patinkin

#4. Laplace's Demon, the hypothetical imp that knows the instantaneous positions and velocities of every particle in the universe, was said to be able to calculate the entire future or past by plugging these values into the equations that express the laws of mechanics and electromagnetism.

Steven Pinker

#5. Until 1869, when they were banned, debtors' prisons were the great incinerators of British reputations. Those who were unable to pay their bills were jailed until their creditors were paid - an unlikely event, given that the prisoner was unable to work.

Tina Brown

#6. If we prove capable of showing a pioneering commitment, we shall create a commmunity listened to around the world.

Jacques Chirac

#7. My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.

Bob Diamond

#8. When you make a lotta money, you got a lotta people shooting at you. Anywhere you go, the tab goes up. People borrow stuff from you, you don't see it again - they figure, Hell, Moses ain't gonna miss it, why do I have to return it?

Moses Malone

#9. His work seems to confirm my old axiom: it is useless to try to keep the whole body alive.

Adolfo Bioy Casares