Popinjay Def Quotes

#1. Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

Charles Krauthammer

#2. Faster roads are not always safer roads - and virtually all societies, democratic or authoritarian, prefer safety over speed, even if many of their citizens enjoy fast driving.

Evgeny Morozov

#3. An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.

Washington Allston

#4. The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.

Gavriel David Rosenfeld

#5. The notion that journalism can regularly produce a product that violates the fundamental interests of media owners and advertisers ... is absurd.

Robert Waterman McChesney

#6. As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.

Emily Yoffe

#7. Sufficiently close examination changes the thing being observed.

Terry Pratchett

#8. Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.

Barbara Sher

#9. I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit.

Will Shields

#10. People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#11. K.C. reminded me of that blonde chick on The Vampire Diaries that runs around acting like every problem in the entire universe has something to do with her.

Penelope Douglas

#12. I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

Robert David Steele

#13. I see the people who have lived here forever. They walk quickly, indifferent to the buildings. They cross the squares without stopping. I

Jhumpa Lahiri

#14. It was time to call on my old paisan Steve Van Zandt.

Bruce Springsteen