Blackadder Cunning As A Fox Quotes

#1. When you are done changing, you're done.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. I expressed myself through hyperactivity and disruption. I wanted to play rather than study.

Ashraf Barhom

#3. Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#4. Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?

Rachel Maddow

#5. There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Moliere

#6. It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.

Karl Lagerfeld

#7. Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of historians; much more than that it does not expect, nor often get.

Samuel E. Morison

#8. In my experience, most people have a narrow view of intelligence, tending to think of it mainly in terms of academic ability. This is why so many people who are smart in other ways end up thinking that they're not smart at all. There are myths surrounding creativity as well.

Ken Robinson

#9. An air of infinite reluctance M. Poirot climbed aboard the train. The conductor climbed after him.

Agatha Christie

#10. Kai frowned at her. "Who are you?"
She brightened. "Oh, I'm Iko! You may not remember me, but we met at the market that day you brought in the android, only I was about this tall"
she held her hand at hip height
"and shaped kind of like an enormous pear, and significantly more pale.

Marissa Meyer

#11. We must hold fast to the austere but true doctrine as to what really governs politics and saves or destroys states. Having in mind things true, things elevated, things just, things pure, things amiable, things of good report; having these in mind, studying and loving these, is what saves states.

Matthew Arnold

#12. Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

George Ayittey

#13. Yeah. I wouldn't do it if it wasn't fun ... We're showing people how, in a pretty crazy and whacked-out, dangerous world, you can still have fun.

Jimmy Buffett