Piling Caps Quotes

#1. SR: "We are talking of a world war."
AQ: "And that makes you sweat, son?"
SR: "Heavens, man! Doesn't it you?"
AQ: "This is Africa, dear boy. Sweating is what we do."

~Alan Quartermain and Sanderson Reed

Alan Moore

#2. The risk is too great. A man cannot place too much faith in any one thing, neither a woman, nor a horse, nor a weapon, nor any single thing.

Michael Crichton

#3. Repentance is not punishment, it is the hope filled path to a more glorious future.

Richard G. Scott

#4. Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.

Richard P. Gabriel

#5. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph

#6. The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day.
And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.

Chris Onstad

#7. This momentary bridge. The wonder of a shared memory, returned. Of a place once theirs and a life that had already been lived.

Paul Yoon

#8. There's millions of gods, beta, but all represent aspects of three, and all three are really one ...

Sarah Macdonald

#9. We are born as princes, and we die as kings, but in between, we are simply men." - - King Errick Wise

Amanda Sebring

#10. I stopped getting nervous a long time ago, so any time I do get nervous, which is rare - about work, anyway - I always take that as a really good sign.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#11. He is a pale, long faced, unsmiling fellow who probably lives on a diet of organic bran and carrot juice. He heard Ballard open the proceedings against La Maison with a pained expression, and looked at me over his half-glasses as though I were a saucepan that hadn't been washed up properly.

John Mortimer

#12. This idea, as you know, that I have firm convictions that the idea of issues being a big deal where our mutual friend went back and he felt so strongly that the determining factor in electoral success should be a proven character.

James Stockdale

#13. The bitch does not stop moving to her own rhythm. This, in and of itself, prevents her from becoming off-balance like a nice girl who abandons her routine.

Sherry Argov

#14. No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus

#15. - and poetry, surely, is a crisis.

J.D. Salinger