Tooly's Quotes

#1. I wanted to show, as Tooly's life enfolds [in The Rise & Fall of Great Powers], how one's earliest stories condition how one encounters the world: what one expects of strangers, whether one counts on justice, whether one veers into cynicism or veers back again.

Tom Rachman

#2. There is one instance that we cite in the report where in one of the conversations a member of organized crime is talking to another member of organized crime and he suggests that Attorney General Kennedy should be murdered.

Louis Stokes

#3. I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Jean-Andre De Luc

#4. In teen years, people yearned to be liked; in their twenties, to be impressive; in their thirties, to be needed

Tom Rachman

#5. A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!

William Beveridge

#6. It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

Willie McCovey

#7. We're dealing with fundamentalists ... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that.

Robin Williams