James Aldridge Quotes

#1. Life is a rush into the unknown. You can duck down & hope nothing hits you, Or stand as tall as you can, show it your teeth & say: "Dish it up, baby, and don't be stingy with the jalapenos." - must be female ;-)

Grey Owl

#2. The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Mark Twain

#3. Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.

James Aldridge

#4. We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.

Bernard Cornwell

#5. An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

Auguste Renoir

#6. Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries.

James Aldridge

#7. I'd been thinking I'd have to learn how to play really well, but obviously the message of punk was that you just learn three chords in a week and you're away.

Jarvis Cocker

#8. He simply wanted more money without additional responsibility. A sound investment. That is the sort of fellow that makes other people's Empire possible. Sells his birthright to a foreigner.

James Aldridge

#9. In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. The return to solid values is always hard ... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

James A. Garfield

#11. The answer cannot be found. That should be my new life motto.

Jessica Khoury

#12. Hope is the forward-looking part of memory.

Diana Wynne Jones

#13. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. It's easy these days to buy a nation, but it's quite difficult to take it by force.

James Aldridge

#15. ...at times you can be more self-righteous than a cart-load of parsons.

James Aldridge

#16. How do you English Socialists believe in Empire like that?' Steele said to Holmes. 'Empire is inimical to Democracy and it has no right to exist in a free world.

James Aldridge

#17. We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

David Milne

#18. I am not nostalgic for the past.

Christian Lacroix

#19. I want to be the star in your diary" -Shawn, Fade to White

N.L. Churney

#20. Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Eric S. Raymond

#21. Biology textbooks tell you the opposite action of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. One produces cold, blue-white anger, the other flushed apoplexy. Roy's was the pink sort. He was a big blonde man, with Viking bristle to eyebrows and mustache.

Alison Jolly

#22. The Americans love to play diplomacy by making scares. It's a crude method.

James Aldridge