Pinner Quotes

#1. Pinner. "'Thank you very much,' said he; 'I fear that I underrated the difficulty of the task. This list will be of very material assistance to me.' "'It took some time,' said I.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. Remember, people, study the rule sheet. Snuggle it at night, eat lunch with it, take it to the movies. It's the only way you're passing my class, Mr. Pinner calls over the bustle of students herding out the door.

Anna Banks

#3. A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

Randall Dale Adams

#4. Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#5. I made my fortune by being able to spot a certain kind of man.

Ayn Rand

#6. Each haka has its own interpretation, but you have to make sure you are in unison with your team-mates; the haka should be a proper war cry.

Jonah Lomu

#7. No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work.

Barack Obama

#8. She had a dream about a tattoo. This was a pleasant dream. She was walking away and she had the most beautiful tattoo. It covered her shoulders, her back, the back of her legs. It was unspeakably fine.

Joy Williams

#9. A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

Andrew Bernstein

#10. If I die in Atlanta my work shall then only begin, but I shall live, in the physical or spiritual to see the day of Africa's glory.

Marcus Garvey

#11. I like that kind of stuff. I like doing speeches. I've been lucky because I've had a lot of characters, over the years, who will have three or four page speeches.

Donal Logue

#12. Oh death, death, why do you never come to me thus summoned always day by day?

Sophocles

#13. When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

Franklin P. Adams