Jansky Service Quotes

#1. Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)

Jennifer Birkett

#2. Being a non-swimmer, I've never been excited by the sea so avoid it on holidays.

Donald Sinden

#3. In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men.

Audre Lorde

#4. If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. [Brodsky] loved cats, and sometimes for a greeting would meow.

Sigrid Nunez

#6. But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

Donald Cargill

#7. No eunuch flatters his tyrant more shamefully or seeks by more infamous means to stimulate his jaded appetite, in order to gain some favor, than does the eunuch of industry, the entrepreneur, in order to acquire a few silver coins or to charm the gold from the purse of his dearly beloved neighbor.

Karl Marx

#8. A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.

William S. Burroughs

#10. Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Karen Armstrong

#11. You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar' ... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way.

Gisele Bundchen

#12. The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - 'to spew out paper.'

Dave Barry

#13. Thus is Man that great and true Amphibium, whose nature is disposed to live, not onely like other creatures in divers elements, but in divided and distinguished worlds: for though there be but one to sense, there are two to reason, the one visible, the other invisible.

Thomas Browne

#14. Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

Anthony Daniels

#15. Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

Oscar Wilde