Jacky Fisher Quotes

#1. The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility.
-Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy

Erik Larson

#2. May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?

Kristen Johnston

#3. Hot dogs and Red Vines and potato chips and French fries are my favorite foods.

Betty White

#4. A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue.

Isaac D'Israeli

#5. Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money.

Frank Zappa

#6. I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

Rachel Weisz

#7. Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Plato

#8. Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

Leonard Cohen

#9. In difficult times bring to mind my words and the sound of my voice. In that way, I shall always be present for you.

Carolyn Meyer

#10. Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

Bill Mollison

#11. For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Quintilian

#12. In the trees the night wind stirs, bringing the leaves to life, endowing them with speech; the electric lights illuminate the green branches from the under side, translating them into a new language.

E.B. White