Slickly Split Quotes

#1. 95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

Ha-Joon Chang

#2. Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. I had gotten injured during the boxing, and I was supposed to take several months off because I'd had a couple of concussions, and so I sort of just left the boxing and got into the acting by accident.

Mickey Rourke

#4. The material's out there, a calm lake waiting for us to dive in.

Beverly Lowry

#5. Don't mention me about your religion! Show me your heart! If you have the heart of an innocent child, you have the best religion, even if you are a nonbeliever!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress.

Jeff Bezos

#7. In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first to be colonized.

Hervey Allen

#8. Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe and transcends all boundaries.

Deepak Chopra

#9. The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a man's innocence or guilt; but the sentence was that Seneca should be banished to the island of Corsica.

Frederic William Farrar

#10. The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

Katharine Tynan

#11. My job in 'Motive' is to be the rebellious teenager - what boy wouldn't want to be that?

Cameron Bright

#12. A prince may be seen happy today and ruined tomorrow without having shown any chance in his character. For the prince who relies entirely on fortune is lost when it changes ...

Neil Jordan

#13. How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!

Hannah More

#14. Too-big-to-fail, meet small-enough-to-jail.

Matt Taibbi