Keith Harris Orville Quotes

#1. It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

Richard Swinburne

#2. War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity.

T.R. Fehrenbach

#3. The Prophet is bound to report the truth occasionally,' said Dumbledore, 'if only accidentally.

J.K. Rowling

#4. They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.

Dave Barry

#5. There were people who knew about stars, who could tell you the name of every star in the sky. ... But she did not understand how it could be important to learn the name of every single star in the sky; surely it was better to know the name of every person in your street?

Gaile Parkin

#6. Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

William Herschel

#8. Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.

Francine Pascal

#9. A lifetime of cannibal hatred

R. Scott Bakker

#10. Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

Edward Dmytryk

#11. The only faithfulness people have is to emotions they're trying to recapture

Norman Mailer

#12. The data transfer rate just isn't good enough for the size of music files, even in compressed formats. So your request for "Anything, oh God, ANYTHING but Disco" is denied. Enjoy your boogie fever. Also,

Andy Weir

#13. The first ideas of religion arose, not from contemplation of the works of nature, but from a concern with regard to the events of life.

David Hume

#14. I never expectedto lose in court. In practice, I did lose, of course. Every lawyer loses, just as every baseball player makes an out severy percent of the time he goes to bat.

William Landay

#15. Love is the crazy, mad, and perhaps ridiculous gesture of saying yes to life, of seeing it as worthy of our embrace and even worthy of our total sacrifice.

Peter Rollins