Best Slashdot Quotes

#1. There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent

Leo Tolstoy

#2. I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.

Joel Kinnaman

#3. Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

Mary Landrieu

#4. We're human. All we are are beautiful contradictions.

Laura Lee Gulledge

#5. To interpose the threat of physical destruction between a man and his perception of reality, is to negate and paralyze his means of survival to force him to act against his own judgment, is like forcing him to act against his own sight

Ayn Rand

#6. Act as if you know what you are talking about and people will assume that you do. Pretend you have no fear and you will appear confident to others.

Michael Wallace

#7. If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

Samuel Goldwyn

#8. The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

Karl Marx

#9. He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. I'm glad I married you too, Harper," I whispered into her hair, "because I'm in love with you." But she didn't hear, gone into a dream.

Fisher Amelie

#11. Weren't your friends the family you got to choose?

Karen Swan

#12. On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall.

Zhang Xin