William Fontaine Quotes

#1. The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by the profane.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. That which is not allotted the hand cannot reach; what is allotted you will find wherever you may be.

Saadi

#3. Running away is pretty pathetic, but it's even worse getting caught.

Maureen Johnson

#4. For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

Whitfield Diffie

#6. My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

Graham Norton

#7. I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

Lisa Bevere

#8. Got a young brown stallion and she 20 years old/When she pop it from the back you see that hairy asshole.

Pimp C

#9. I was as pure as the morning When I first looked on your face; I knew I never could reach you In your high, exalted place ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#10. History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.

A.J.P. Taylor

#11. I am interested in how cells know what they are and how they should behave in their proper place in the body.

Tim Hunt

#12. I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious.

Elizabeth Debicki