Tangent Line Quotes

#1. To leave the number of births unrestricted, as is done in most states, inevitably causes poverty among the citizens, and poverty produces crime and faction.

Aristotle.

#2. You what. Curley's like a lot of little guys. He hates big guys. He's alla time picking scraps with big guys. Kind of like he's mad at 'em because he ain't a big guy. You seen little guys like that, ain't you? Always scrappy?

John Steinbeck

#3. He [Courtois] goes back to Chelsea.

Marc Wilmots

#4. We may talk about our religion, we may discuss marvelous manifestations and revealed gifts and powers, we may profess high ideals and noble values; but the proof of our commitment lies in our performance in the daily transaction of our life.

J. Richard Clarke

#5. The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

Christian Scott

#6. Active management is little more than a gigantic con game.

Ronald Ross

#7. A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Byron Katie

#8. Ancient writing was intended to do things, to make people act or believe or change their behavior, not just to entertain them with a suitably concluded literary experience.

Mary Ann Tolbert

#9. By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited.

Lawrence Lessig

#10. I suppose some studio executive would say it's death for a comedy if people aren't all laughing in the same places, but I find with my movies that people laugh in very different places. I can't control it.

Noah Baumbach

#11. I'm such a geek now with princesses. It's pathetic.

Lily James

#12. We welcome that kind of shrapnel so that when it twinges in our souls we're filled with that glowing feeling that comfort us in our darkest hours and whispers from somewhere inside that our own happiness isn't impossible nor is it entirely lost.

Carrie Hope Fletcher

#13. I needed him to fulfill a desire, one that does nothing but torment me. And he's reminding me of everything I hate about myself.

Krista Ritchie

#14. If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would probably abandon the practice altogether. There are moments in a man's life when a girl's smile can have as important results as an explosion of dynamite.

P.G. Wodehouse

#15. FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered liberal.

Noah Feldman