Cartographically Challenged Quotes

#1. Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.

George Soros

#2. Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.

Coluche

#3. When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonna do with my life, but that I wanted to make a difference and touch even if it was like one person's life ... inspire them.

Shantel VanSanten

#4. It would never have ended that way. [True. It was not his time.]

Lauren Groff

#5. We were absolutely destined to meet your hot sister

Rick Riordan

#6. London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

David Byrne

#7. He who molds the public sentiment ... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.

Agatha Christie

#9. I want to accept all the difficulties that face me in life with perseverance and patience.

Ameen Rihani

#10. The American experience works when people embrace a set of shared values, you come, you work hard, you embrace these values and you're as American as anybody that came on the Mayflower.

Jeb Bush

#11. In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

#12. Nobody asks about Beethoven's mother's own life - a fairly miserable round of pregnancy, childbirth, and child death. Was Maria Magdalena Keverich van Beethoven put on earth only to produce her wunderkind? Might she have had gifts of her own that she never got to offer the world?

Katha Pollitt

#13. I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

Jerry Pournelle