Masand Review Quotes

#1. Poor white trash quoting de Maistre and Carlyle and fancying themselves elite while they scrabbled to survive in a world where they were outstripped economically by the Chinese and intellectually by their own phones.

Ken MacLeod

#2. Never let a pickpocket bump into you if you can help it

Pseudonymous Bosch

#3. Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation ... none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#4. I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself.

Sean M. Carroll

#6. I'm tired of speaking and no one understands what I say.

Tina J. Richardson

#7. Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach?

Stephen Colbert

#8. I don't love balls and sleeping beauties, that kind of thing. I think the great thing about 'Snow White' is those images have scarred me since I was a child with the Queen, the mirror, the taking of the heart, the huntsman and the enchanted forest.

Rupert Sanders

#9. To capture the pawn, threaten the queen.

Robert Charles Wilson

#10. Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

Hannah Arendt

#11. The golden age is before us, not behind us.

Simon The Zealot

#12. No matter how good the pitcher, she is still hit-able in more than one way.

Kiersten Warren

#13. The Jews are a class violating every regulation of trade established by the Treasury Department, and also department orders and are herein expelled from the department within 24 hours from receipt of this order.

Ulysses S. Grant

#14. Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about ... go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.

Gary Jennings

#15. Too many doubts grow in the cracks of silence and separation.

Alison Goodman