Laxton Glass Quotes

#1. It's perfectly obvious that there is some genetic factor that distinguishes humans from other animals and that it is language-specific. The theory of that genetic component, whatever it turns out to be, is what is called universal grammar.

Noam Chomsky

#2. I fear that I won't work in the theatre again. I'm sad about that. But I won't retire.

Maggie Smith

#3. Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it.

Gary Holland

#4. most important wake-up call!

Robin S. Sharma

#5. But he laughed as the English do at the end of his teeth.

Alexandre Dumas

#6. I don't know whether to run or grab hold of her and never let go.

Kristen Callihan

#7. The fact is, all education is directed to some end, and if parents don't make conscious decisions on what that end is, they are simply abdicating their role in setting the direction" of their children's lives.

Rod Dreher

#8. The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.

David Blunkett

#9. Assume nothing. Inside every dumb blond there may be a very smart brunette.

Ann Landers

#10. The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public.

Paul Krugman

#11. Faced with information overload, we have no alternative but pattern-recognition.

Marshall McLuhan

#12. The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

Benjamin Franklin

#14. He who always acts under obedience may be assured that he will not have to give an account of his actions to God.

Philip Neri

#15. Memories have no life. They're just pale reminders of a time that's gone-like faded photographs.

Kevin Brooks