Captain Vimes Quotes

#1. Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice
i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.

Terry Pratchett

#2. You can't clean your dirty past as if you are cleaning a dirty window! All you can do is to create a clean future!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether it's by creating video games, computer art or sharing exciting Web sites.

Seymour Papert

#4. You just put that sword away, sir, please," said the voice of Lance-Constable Vimes.
"You will not shoot me, you young idiot. That would be murder," said the captain calmly.
"Not where I'm aiming, sir.

Terry Pratchett

#5. When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do," they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.

Bell Hooks

#6. No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that's the most important thing.

Ashlee Simpson

#7. Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Good deeds, when concealed, are the most admirable.

Blaise Pascal

#9. I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.

Ed Robertson

#10. Everybody who's a physician, who makes vaccines, who wants to find the cure for cancer. Everybody who wants to do any medical good for humankind got the passion for that before he or she was 10.

Bill Nye

#11. Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of grief, like old skin cells to drop off us

Marianne Williamson

#12. How I would love to be a British pound. A pound is free to travel to safety and we are free to watch it go. This is the triumph. This is called globalisation. 2

Chris Cleave

#13. A baby is a beautiful, blooming, flower that can smile, sing, and dance.

Debasish Mridha

#14. There is perhaps not an enlightened Christian in America who, notwithstanding he may believe that, at the time of Jesus, men were possessed of devils, believes that they ever have been in any other instance, either before or since.

Lysander Spooner

#15. Increased and better screening for explosives is necessary - and Congress should fund it and TSA should implement it as quickly as possible - however that screening doesn't reduce the risk posed by a trained terrorist with an unconventional weapon.

Dave Reichert