Grubers How To Rip Quotes

#1. Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings.

Stefan Zweig

#2. Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Annie Dillard

#3. Two days in a row with morning appointments! What kind of evil cloud was he under here, all of a sudden?

Donald E. Westlake

#4. Lobbying is not a bad thing. I'm not trying to say that we shouldn't have lobbyists or we shouldn't have lobbying to petition our government. It's in the Constitution, and it's something that should be honorable and good.

Jack Abramoff

#5. In Elizabethan England you will only find small codpieces. Large ones, stuffed with wool and looking like an erect male member, are out of date

Ian Mortimer

#6. They had been harboring a hatred for us which we had grown accustomed to calling "prejudice." What a gentle word that was! What a euphemism!

Edith Hahn Beer

#7. The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with certainty will never happen, no matter how much time is allotted and no matter how many conceivable opportunities could exist for the event to take place.

Emile Borel

#9. Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

Edward Coke

#10. But Neve, you can't start a book and leave it halfway through,' he'd said implacably. 'It's almost as bad as turning down the corner of the page, instead of using a bookmark.

Sarra Manning

#11. We can never cease to be ourselves.

Joseph Conrad