January 28 Quotes

#1. Dostoyevsky dies in St Petersburg (28 January). Buried

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.

Wanda Jackson

#3. And there were no signs whatever of the disagreements among capitalists - or of the Anglo-American war - that Stalin's ideological illusions had led him to expect.

John Lewis Gaddis

#4. Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

Barack Obama

#5. When I see the moon on a clear night, I do say "blessed be" and I remind myself to be grateful to the universe that I happen to exist in such a lovely and wondrous world, even and especially as I can rattle on about magma cooling, abiogenesis, and natural selection.

Thomm Quackenbush

#6. Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country.

James Buchanan

#7. People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963

Sylvia Plath

#8. A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.

Edgar Allan Poe

#9. Climate alarmists insist that the apparently missing heat (from CO2 warming)is hiding in the deep ocean -- which is like telling a child Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, as deep ocean heat can't be measured.
-- Ralph B. Alexander, Letter to The Oregonian, January 28, 2013

Ralph B. Alexander

#10. If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

Caroline Paul

#11. He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." ...
Forgive him, he has no manners."
I get by on good looks," Nick said.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#12. Silence is not only never thirsty, but also never brings pain or sorrow.

Hippocrates