Offences Against Property Quotes

#1. Give me needy emotional whining bullshit.
Flash.
Give me self-absorbed egocentric twaddle.
Christ.

Chuck Palahniuk

#2. We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

William James

#3. All great art is abstract.

Jean Renoir

#4. Trying to solve the worlds problems by making things 5% more efficient is like trying to play the violin with gardening gloves. Not much good will come out of it. We must invent new ways!

Philippe Kahn

#5. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time. None of us will ever forget this day, yet we go forward to defend freedom and all that is good and just in our world.

George W. Bush

#6. It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance ...

Lewis Thomas

#7. Don't read with your eyes.

Thomas C. Foster

#8. I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

Saul Williams

#9. People came to the All-Star Game to see the dunk contest.

Dominique Wilkins

#10. I was the girl who could be anything-that's what my teachers used to say, and I believed them. I just never realised that 'anything'could include this.

Kamila Shamsie

#11. For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.

Herodotus

#12. I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express.

Stephen Colbert

#13. Believe me when I tell you that there is no lie quite so obvious as the one where you try to protest that you have washed your face ready for bedtime while you are still sporting an enormous ear-to-ear purple smile of dried Ribena.

Nigel Slater