Ratbag And Ranger Quotes

#1. Footnoting references, signalling quotations, and so on were no part of a 13th-century scholar's duty. He could recycle his own and his predecessor's work without a qualm. He knew nothing of copyright and plagiarism, which are 17th-century inventions.

Fergus Kerr

#2. Girls are not born with a devotion to sanitation.

Marcia Aldrich

#3. The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

Edward Bond

#5. Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

J.B. Priestley

#6. We are all fragile. It's the thing we learn in war

Kristin Hannah

#7. When you intervene on behalf of your child, your child becomes the victim. You're expressing the message 'You're incapable, you're not sturdy enough to resolve this yourself, you need me to come in and take care of this for you.'" You are, in essence, disempowering your child.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#8. He drove out the spirits with a word

Anonymous

#9. Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. Oil rich boys ... had a nice, sweet smile but when you finished meeting with them your socks were missing and you hadn't even noticed they'd taken your boots.

Larry Hagman

#11. Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

Veronica Roth

#12. Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.

Jonathan Miller

#13. The concept of life and perfection is incompatible. BUT so is death and perfection

Murray N. Rothbard