Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 16, 2014
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)  
If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)  
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
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Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)  
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
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Marcus Brigstocke  
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