Balaena Musculus Quotes

#1. Diplomacy is fundamentally working with people, bringing people together to deal with difficult issues.

John Roos

#2. Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.

Ruth Wilson

#3. There are many good reasons to fear a nuclear Iran, but also many good reasons to fear the consequences of launching a preventive military strike against Iran. If the president, whoever it is, wants to do the latter, he or she should - indeed, under the Constitution, must - go to Congress.

Doug Bandow

#4. I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

Chris Ware

#5. What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#6. Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

Robert Genn

#7. There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.

Justin Welby

#8. Imagination plays too important a role in the writing of history, and what is imagination but the projection of the author's personality.

Pieter Geyl