Misappropriating Quotes

#1. Nearly every aspect of life was subject to some measure of legal restraint. At a local level, you could be fined for letting your ducks wander in the road, for misappropriating town gravel, for having a guest in your house without a permit from the local bailiff.

Bill Bryson

#2. I had become aware, as early as my college days, that no opinion, however absurd and incredible can be imagined, that has not been held by one of the philosophers.

Rene Descartes

#3. Be Practical. That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#4. Hey, guys, I'm going to change," Tony announced. "You all need to get out of here for a little bit." "So fucking change. You change in the locker room all the time-what's the bug deal?" Slade asked. Tony groaned and his eyes narrowed at Slade. "Oh. Gotcha!" Slade turned and announced, "Everybody ...

Sidney Halston

#5. Victory belongs to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

James Patterson

#6. Love is higher than existence, love is the crown of existence; and how is it possible that existence should not be under its dominance?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. To create an Ocean you have to start with the droplets

Alok Jagawat

#8. These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.

Taylor Wilson

#9. Man is an analogist, and studies relations in all objects. He is placed in the center of beings, and a ray of relation passes from every other being to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Reality bites, and I've got the teeth marks to prove it.

Robert M. Hensel