Nishiyama A Silent Quotes

#1. Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

Tom Lehrer

#2. Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

Robert Browning

#3. When you're born, they (God or little aliens or whoever) should send you into the world with a bunch of free passes.

Nicola Yoon

#4. When the bishop farted we were amused to hear about it. Should the ploughboy find treasure we must be told. But when the ploughboy farts ... er ... keep it to yourself.

Kingsley Amis

#5. Earnest Freethinkers need not worry themselves so much about the persecutions of the past. Before the Liberal idea is dead or triumphant we shall see wars and persecutions the like of which the world has never seen.

G.K. Chesterton

#6. The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

Giambattista Vico

#7. I was in oil when oil was $8 a barrel and in construction when interest rates were 20 percent. I was looking for something everyone used and where you could build a customer base - and if it was successful, you could take it nationwide and even worldwide.

Kenny Troutt

#8. OVERCONFIDENCE. We often stroll through life, thinking everything will be fine, until suddenly it isn't.

Timothy J. Keller

#9. I understand the climate we live in and why people are curious. But it's just tough and almost emotionally violent - for anyone, I think - to see your personal life summarized in a sentence.

Ryan Reynolds

#10. I was only going to go to college because that's what I thought you were supposed to do.

Spike Jonze