Kafirstan Quotes

#1. It was one of those playful arguments that we would carry with us unresolved into old age.

Jonathan Tropper

#2. There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

Julian Fellowes

#3. People blanch to see "fish meal" or "meat meal" on a pet-food ingredient panel, but meal
which variously includes organs, heads, skin, and bones
most closely resembles the diet of dogs and cats in the wild. Muscle meat is a grand source of protein, but comparatively little else.

Mary Roach

#4. I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.

Steve Ballmer

#5. Never hope to conceal any shameful thing which you have done; for even if you do conceal it from others, your own heart will know. ... Pursue the enjoyments which are of good repute; for pleasure attended by honor is the best thing in the world, but pleasure without honor is the worst.

Isocrates

#6. This was a far cry from the meritocratic Ottoman period, when only by dint of an education could a man of humble background hope to rise through the ranks, get rich, and become a pasha.

Orhan Pamuk

#7. Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

August Bier

#8. I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good.

Moby

#9. Nobody is born as a teacher and only a few die as a teacher!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way.
-Clary, pg.46-

Cassandra Clare

#11. Del Toro wearing sculpted and molded gelatin makeup, including fake hair and acrylic dentures and gums.

Guillermo Del Toro

#12. Privatization and deregulation constitute the outsourcing of democratically elected government with a moral mission to corporations that have a profit-making mission. The effect is to turn democracy into corporatocracy. PROFIT

George Lakoff