Pelican Brief Book Quotes

#1. The fact that I don't have any particular need for religion doesn't mean that I have a need to cast religion aside the way some of my colleagues do.

Brian Greene

#2. You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

Bill Watterson

#3. My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.

Lloyd Dorfman

#4. I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

Jim Carrey

#5. Help, Remy, help!
Emile! Start swinging the light!

Walt Disney Company

#6. But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

Jane Austen

#7. Americans have always believed that-within the law-all kinds of people should be allowed to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. And out of that pluralism has come virtually all of our creativity. Freedom is real only to the extent that there are diverse alternatives.

John W. Gardner

#8. A placebo-controlled, double-blind, randomised trial of boys with autism found that two to three servings of cruciferous vegetables a day improves social interaction, abnormal behaviour and verbal communication - within a matter of weeks.

Michael Greger

#9. I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.

Aaron Patzer

#10. Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.

Jerry Rubin

#11. Worrying doesn't make any difference, but working does and spirituality gives one the strength to work

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#12. Even in technology, you have the freedom to solve a problem your way, you see. But it naturally sits in a certain framework whereas, in the physics, everybody had to come up with his own idea what he was going to do.

Heinrich Rohrer

#13. How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?" - Albert Einstein

Shannon Lee Alexander

#14. A material thing is first of all "the only bridge of communication between two minds." The bridge is a passage, but it is also distance maintained. The materiality of the book keeps two minds at an equal distance, whereas explication is the annihilation of one mind by another.

Jacques Ranciere