Sidlow Wales Quotes

#1. Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

John Milton

#2. As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.

William Thurston

#3. You are ill, correct? The warmth and shivering had no other particular cause, did it?"
"Not only am I ill, I am sure I am contagious.

Madeline Hunter

#4. When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

Preston Sturges

#5. I call myself a Sanatani Eternal Hindu, because I believe in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Puranas, and all that goes by the name of Hindu scripture, and therefore in avataras and rebirth ...

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Men are terrified of him. Global organizations haven't been able to kill him. And yet when his cock is in my mouth, he gives me all the power. I could get drunk on that power I have over him. I could get off on that power too. I want my James.

J.A. Huss

#7. The rain is a noisy thing, splashing and pattering and rattling the rooftops.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Nothing is duller than a progression of common chords. One wants some contrast, which breaks up the clear white light and makes it iridescent.

Denis Diderot

#9. Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

George Bernard Shaw

#10. I offered you a choice, and you took it."
I shot him what I hoped was a truly scathing glare. "Some choice. I was dying. Some drunk shot me from a pickup. Why wouldn't I have just woken up with gonorrhea like every other girl of loose moral fiber?

Molly Harper

#11. Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.

L. Frank Baum

#12. When we speak of "gods," we are really talking about "the opinions of priests." When we speak of "the government," we really mean "the violence of a tiny minority.

Stefan Molyneux