Downend School Quotes

#1. Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history.

Susan Sontag

#2. I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

George Harrison

#3. The Miracle Morning is about focusing on "becoming" more so that you can start doing less, to achieve more.

Kevin Kruse

#4. If a snake isn't poisonous, all the more reason that it should pretend to be so,

Ashwin Sanghi

#5. You'll have to outfly the west wind to catch me.

Claire M. Banschbach

#6. I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear ... and find peace in its bosom.

Osamu Tezuka

#7. I have decided not to do the spa. Too time consuming.

Sela Ward

#8. I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

Ferdinand Marcos

#9. I don't think we are cut out to be evil sorcerers, brothers," said Fentongoose. "If we were truly evil, we would not feel such sorrow at the deaths of our friends. We would just go, 'Ha! Ha! Ha!' or something.

Philip Reeve

#10. The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

Adam Smith

#11. It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It's always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what is the best.

Angelica Hopes

#12. If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

Cyril Smith

#13. She didn't want to close herself into this bad-smelling room with the old woman, but when there was no choice, hesitation was ever a fault.

Stephen King

#14. I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

Camille Paglia