Sobotka Quotes

#1. Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.

Chris Bauer

#2. Lord Cranborne told the leader of the opposition to 'back me or sack me' - he succeeded in doing both.

Tony Blair

#3. Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.

Thorstein Veblen

#4. To be less dumb, remember your propensity for post hoc postulation and the power positive permutations of the placebo effect have to pollute your perspicacity.

David McRaney

#5. Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.

Philip Auslander

#7. All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Albert Einstein

#8. So, Maximus the Fellatio Trainer - how does your prick feel about scratchy barbarian beards?"

Lucius Petronius

J.P. Kenwood

#9. We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christian Nestell Bovee