Catgut Quotes

#1. To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.

J.B. Priestley

#2. The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly's bloom.

Virginia Woolf

#3. Also, don't roll your own cryptosystems

Anonymous

#4. Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn't reach into majesty.

Rumi

#5. there can be occasions when we suddenly and involuntarily find ourselves loving r=the natural world with a startling intensity, in a burst of emotion which we may not fully understand, and the only word that seems to me to be appropriate for this feeling is joy

Michael McCarthy

#6. Politicians don't like empowered individuals.

Neal Boortz

#7. When you build only software that you absolutely need, you don't get more software than you'll actually use.

Jessica Livingston

#8. There are some things," he said softly, "that a princess has to do alone.

Anne Fortier

#9. Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes ... It is necessary to make mistakes.
The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

Mao Zedong

#10. I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Oscar Wilde