Quandoque Bonus Quotes

#1. Be thine own privy counsellor.

Benjamin Disraeli

#2. So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.

Regis Philbin

#3. This space station [Yang Liwei] was little more than a giant Orbital Denial Station. If those charges were to detonate, the debris ... any future space launch would be grounded for years. It was a "Scorched Space" policy. "If we can't have it, neither can anyone else.

Max Brooks

#4. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

Samantha Bee

#6. The great thing about Watergate is, is that the system worked. The American system worked. The press did its job. We did what we were supposed to do.

Carl Bernstein

#7. Reporters may believe they control the story, but the story always controls the reporters.

Bob Woodward

#8. I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Sting

#9. I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
[Lat., Et idem
Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Horace

#10. Without a doubt, the most spectacular way to die in space is to fall into a black hole.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#11. If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

Winston Churchill