Quatermain Film Quotes

#1. Newton advanced, with one gigantic stride, from the regions of twilight into the noon day of science. A Boyle and a Hooke, who would otherwise have been deservedly the boast of their century, served but as obscure forerunners of Newton's glories.

Thomas Young

#2. My mother died of lung cancer last year. I felt helpless. As an economist, I thought, 'What can I do?'

Andrew Lo

#3. The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free.

Robert Byron

#4. How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

William Morris Hunt

#5. No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.

Martha Beck

#6. We think we're so important, that we are the keepers of the keys, but in reality, we're nothing more than children stumbling around in the dark, flicking switches and trampling on ants' nests just to see what might happen.

C.J. Waller

#7. An easy life is rarely meaningful and a meaningful life rarely easy.

Oliver North