Pretorius Quotes

#1. I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

Adam Ant

#2. Probably the undertaker thinks less of death than almost any other man. He is so accustomed to it that his mind must involuntarily turn from its horror to a contemplation of how much he makes out of the burial.

Clarence Darrow

#3. Don't get seduced by your own stuff; work hard to keep a blank slate state of mind each time you watch your film.

James Cameron

#4. it with their fingers out of my hands,

Cheryl Strayed

#5. Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.

Allan Sherman

#6. Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. They come from social practice, and from it alone; they come from three kinds of social practice, the struggle for production, the class struggle and scientific experiment.

Mao Zedong

#7. How do you learn if they don't make mistakes? It's good to make mistakes but not that many.

Angela Bernabe

#8. In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#9. Be quick but do not hurry.

John Wooden

#10. But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.

Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

#11. History is moving, and it will tend toward hope, or tend toward tragedy.

George W. Bush

#12. Give us but the chance and a new generation of Earthmen would grow to maturity, lacking insularity and believing wholeheartedly in the oneness of Man.

Isaac Asimov

#13. Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

Daniel Goleman

#14. Romantic haste in drama brings
tears and sighs when the hero dies
but the curtain fall is final
when in life we take the tragic way
The sunset too is a glorious thing
but with it ends the day.

C. P. Klapper

#15. The failure of credit markets is one of the major reasons for underdevelopment.

George Akerlof