Bolometric Magnitude Quotes

#1. The tendency of taxation is to create a class of persons who do not labor, to take from those who do labor the produce of that labor, and to give it to those who do not labor.

William Cobbett

#2. Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

Laura Lippman

#3. The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.

C.S. Lewis

#4. I'm a New York businessman.

John Catsimatidis

#5. Just being an ape is a workout.

Andy Serkis

#6. Enough Americans saw fit to give president Obama a second term. I don't think there will be many people keeping their Romney/Ryan bumper stickers on their cars.

Henry Rollins

#7. He had hobbled down there that morning,

Robert Louis Stevenson

#8. It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

Hermann Maier

#9. You better keep your lane on this race of reaching out for our dreams and goals; don't stand in the middle of the road because you will be run over by those who are determined to reach the finishing line.

Euginia Herlihy

#10. Already he was realizing that he would be more ashamed of her in the city than he was here. Then, quite suddenly, he was not ashamed of her, but of himself. Deeply ashamed.

Warren Eyster

#11. How can you grow to love a handful of strangers so fiercely just because you have to sleep on the same couple of wooden planks with them, when half the time you were there you wanted to strangle them, and all you ever talked about is death and imaginary strawberries?

Elizabeth Wein

#12. There are so many characters whizzing around inside my head, it's like Looney Tunes. But as soon as I've finished writing about them, I completely forget who they are.

Peter Ackroyd