David Ho Quotes

#1. A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.

Isaac Newton

#2. More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.

Henry Rollins

#3. You're a con artist. A liar. A thief. An unredeemable soul. You can't be reformed. You can't be saved. You'll die trying to make the world pay for what it did to you. And you'll die alone.

Karina Halle

#4. I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

Craig Venter

#5. Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

Jack Kerouac

#6. And behind the good doctor, his Wall of Hubris: I counted seven framed degrees, hung with care and pride and more than a little jackassedness. Oh-ho, you don't believe I'm important, eh? Well then, how do you explain these?!?!?!

David Arnold

#7. I. In Secret II. The Grindstone III. The Shadow IV. Calm in Storm

Charles Dickens

#8. I value and trust those w^ho love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance.

Henry David Thoreau

#9. If I'd been burned alive because of bad grades, my parents would have killed me, especially my father, who meant well but was just a little too gung ho for my taste.

David Sedaris

#10. Ho' law an' Civ'lize ain't always the same, nay, see Kona got Kona law but they ain't got one flea o' Civ'lize.

David Mitchell

#11. A man is known to be mortal by two things, Sleep and Lust.

George Herbert

#12. Ho Chi Minh and Vietnam were perfect for Lyndon Johnson: 220 million against 18 million, water buffalo and all. No risk, really.

David Douglas Duncan