Sumption Mail Quotes

#1. I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

Brie Larson

#2. I'm as much of a homophobe as Jesus was. The people who are participating in homosexual behavior, they need to know that I love them.

Phil Robertson

#3. The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.

Nick Harkaway

#4. He had the right mix of pissed-off male and swoon-worthy alpha to make any girl's heart go pitter-patter.

Chelle Bliss

#5. Nice dress," Victoria said.
"Thank you," Perpetua said. "Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?"
Victoria blinked. "Uh, what?

Benjamin R. Smith

#6. Just as one can arrange bits of iron, etc, into a hermetically sealed box which imprison other pieces of matter, so one can arrange thoughts into a box too, which effectively imprisons other thoughts.

Nanamoli Thera

#7. There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

Alan Thicke

#8. Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses.

Norman Macbeth

#9. Books are the true metempsychosis,
they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

Henry Ward Beecher

#10. While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility.

Harriet Martineau

#11. Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Johan Huizinga

#12. Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.

Nathan Myhrvold

#13. Remember, your goal is to trade well, not to trade often.

Alexander Elder

#14. To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

Zbigniew Brzezinski