Penalized Crossword Quotes

#1. One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.

Anton Chekhov

#2. Perhaps the nearest one could get to a common characteristic of poststructuralism would be a radical suspicion of reason, order and certainty as governing principles of knowledge and existence...the absurd and the irrational can no longer be distinguished from the real and the rational

Margaret Maclure

#3. What in Mandela was seen as an almost saintly ability to conciliate could, in a lesser man, be read as weak-kneed populism.

Mark Gevisser

#4. Almost everything about a human creature is ridiculous, except its ability to suffer bravely and die gallantly for whatever it loves and believes in. The validity of that belief, the appropriateness of that love, is irrelevant; it is the bravery and the gallantry that count.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. Consider the Jewish joke, with the old lady running distractedly along the seashore: Help! My son the doctor is drowning. Amusing, I suppose. Her pride, I suppose, is amusing: it is greater than her love.

Martin Amis

#6. I want to see something I've never seen before.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#7. Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,
endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#8. When you're dealing with shooting a lot of live action in 3D, you're committed to how much 3D you're giving the audience.

Bryan Singer

#9. An ordinary visit to a beautiful garden always creates an extraordinary time!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Having a strong spirit, we can control the desires of the flesh.

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Don't be afraid of losing a little power in daily associations. People who seek power and knowledge aren't misers. They aren't afraid. That is paranoid.

Frederick Lenz

#12. There was a contact between a football player and a cheerleader, male I might add. That male cheerleader clipped me from the side as I was running full speed, or slower than full speed, but generally, in the upper quadrant of speed. And I hit the ground pretty good.

Les Miles

#13. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Andre Maurois

#14. Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

David Koepp