Queequegs Idol Quotes

#1. About an attractive woman at the bar, my character, Austin Carr, says, "She might be too drunk. I mean, even stockbrokers have some pride.

Jack Getze

#2. Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Solon

#3. Good manners require space and time.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#4. Defeating death is the best skill of all.

Toba Beta

#5. It is love and reason,' I said,'fleeing from all the madness of war.

H.G.Wells

#6. Funny, how just when you think life can't possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

Douglas Adams

#7. Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.

Tim Winton

#8. The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground,

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

#9. I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Tom Watson

#10. Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them ... I don't want those regrets

Lisa De Jong

#11. The typical old-fashioned diet (in the nineteenth century) was so bad it almost assembled modern dieting.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

Eric Liu

#13. Memory is a rehearsal for a show that never goes on.

Jonathan Lethem

#14. The aims of scientific thought are to see the general in the particular and the eternal in the transitory.

Alfred North Whitehead