Earthling Culture Quotes

#1. I wish to God I was organized enough to tell you that, 'Yes, there will be 14 books, and this one will go here, and that one will go there' ... but to be honest, I hardly know what I'm going to do when I get up in the morning.

Jeff Lindsay

#2. Your advanced alien science is no match for our spunky Earthling pop culture.

James L. Cambias

#3. Once when I felt a little bruised by censorship I sent through Herodotus's account of the battle of Salamis fought between the Greeks and Persians in 480 B.C., and since there were place names involved, albeit classical ones, the Navy censors killed the whole story.

John Steinbeck

#4. It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it is for the student.

William C. Menninger

#5. An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply la constatation d'un fait.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Things are different here, sir," said Carrot. "It wasn't until ten years ago they replaced trial by ordeal here with trial by lawyer, and that was only because they found that lawyers were nastier.

Terry Pratchett

#7. We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.

James Clerk Maxwell

#8. Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.

Marv Levy

#9. Some people's elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood - common

D.E. Stevenson