Barrovian Slides Quotes

#1. Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.

Laurence Sterne

#3. You shouldn't keep other people's phallic symbols on the mantelpiece.

Fay Weldon

#4. The future is a choice between Utopia and oblivion.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#5. The U.S. government officials lie when they talk about human rights. They're a bunch of hypocrites and liars.
You can't take it seriously.

Eqbal Ahmad

#6. The mammoth was basically done in by climate change. The last ones survived on Wrangel Island, north of Chukotka, until 3,700 years ago. According to Eveny mythology, mammoths scooped up dirt with their tusks to form the first dry land.

Alex Shoumatoff

#7. See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - just underground tunnels. I think we all got lost in those underground tunnels. No, not lost. We just lived there.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#8. Buddy, I don't mean to poke my nose in where it don't belong, but that there is a dame to kill for. Why'd you let her go?

Frank Miller