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  • #1
    Virginia Woolf
    “If any human being, man, woman, dog, cat or half-crushed worm dares call me “middlebrow” I will take my pen and stab him, dead. Yours etc., Virginia Woolf.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #2
    William Shakespeare
    “What do you read, my lord?
    Hamlet: Words, words, words.
    Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord?
    Hamlet: Between who?
    Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord.”
    William Shakespeare

  • #3
    Tennessee Williams
    “The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”
    Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer

  • #4
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He liked fishing and seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #5
    Anne Carson
    “He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.”
    Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

  • #6
    J.C. Squire
    “It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be,' restored the status quo.”
    John Collings Squire

  • #7
    Douglas Adams
    “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.”
    Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

  • #8
    Douglas Adams
    “So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die."
    "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this switch?" he cried.
    "What? Where?" cried Arthur, twisting round.
    "No, I was only fooling," said Ford, "we are going to die after all.”
    Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

  • #9
    Steve  Martin
    “First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”
    Steve Martin

  • #10
    “Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
    David L. Goodstein, States of Matter

  • #11
    Werner Herzog
    “In the face of the obscene, explicit malice of the jungle, which lacks only dinosaurs as punctuation, I feel like a half-finished, poorly expressed sentence in a cheap novel.”
    Werner Herzog

  • #12
    Robert Bloch
    “Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
    Robert Bloch

  • #13
    “I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”
    Nick Helm

  • #14
    William Shakespeare
    “Exit, pursued by a bear.”
    William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

  • #15
    William Shakespeare
    “So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
    It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”
    William Shakespeare, Hamlet

  • #16
    William Shakespeare
    “Thine face is not worth sunburning.”
    William Shakespeare, Henry V

  • #17
    William Shakespeare
    “Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #18
    “My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.”
    Ellen DeGeneres

  • #19
    Richard  Adams
    “My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
    Richard Adams, Watership Down

  • #20
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #21
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.”
    Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

  • #22
    “No matter how much we might wish it, there is no way to build a lock that only angels can open and demons cannot. Anyone who tells you otherwise is either ignorant of the mathematics or less of an angel than they appear.”
    CGP Grey

  • #23
    “We think of technological change as the fancy, new, expensive stuff. But the real change comes from last-decade stuff getting cheaper and faster.”
    CGP Grey

  • #24
    Tennessee Williams
    “Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!”
    Tennessee Williams, Suddenly Last Summer



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