Vandalized Quotes

#1. Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Roger Ebert

#2. One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Michael J. Fox

#3. Reality wasn't a syllogism like "Socrates is a man - all men are mortal - hence Socrates is mortal," but more like "Helga is a human being - all telephone booths have been vandalized - hence Helga must die." Or like: "Hitler is a human being - all Jews are animals - hence all Jews must die.

Harry Mulisch

#4. She had thought the chewing and digesting were meant literally and wondered, horrified, why Mo had hung on his workshop door the words of someone who vandalized books.

Cornelia Funke

#5. There aren't many people who can say they've vandalized a three-billion-dollar spacecraft, but I'm one of them.

Andy Weir

#6. Where in this wide world can man find nobility without pride, friendship without envy, or beauty without vanity?

Bantu Holomisa

#7. then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I

Naomi Novik

#8. The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

Brennan Manning

#9. Can someone explain to me why pilots feel they need to wake everyone to tell us that we are flying by a cloud that looks like a monkey.

Bill Engvall

#10. Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.

Gillian Flynn

#11. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

William Shakespeare

#12. The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities ... It is best to win without fighting.

Sun Tzu

#13. I would rather be lost with you than alone without you.

Amy Harmon

#14. Making lots of money
it's not that hard, you know. It's overestimated. Making lots of money is a breeze. You watch. ch. 1, p. 23 in Penguin paperback

Martin Amis

#15. You yourself said there will be horrible consequences if she doesn't get what she wants. I am not worth starting a war over." His eyes brightened behind the spectacles. He looked young for a moment, almost giddy. "Actually, you are.

Marissa Meyer

#16. I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.

David Hockney

#17. One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo.

Ken Follett