Microphysical Power Quotes

#1. I think some people just don't know that much about comedy. It would be like a person who didn't know anything about football thinking all offensive linemen are the same.

Anthony Jeselnik

#2. An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.

Jane Austen

#3. Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people.

Jon Stewart

#4. Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry.

Stephen Kinzer

#5. Smoking wildwood flower got to be a habit, we didn't see no harm. We thought it was kind of handy, to take a trip and never leave the farm.

Jim Stafford

#6. She didn't want to be commended for knowing how to settle for second-best. That was like winning a prize for the prettiest shoes in a footrace. Irrelevant and not the point.

Julia Quinn

#7. Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

Alan Ladd

#8. Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.

Jasper Fforde

#9. Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.

Ray Stevenson

#10. Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

Miuccia Prada