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- A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
- The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
- There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
- Martin Gardner (1914 - ), "The Mathematical Magic Show"
- I'm a born-again atheist.
- Gore Vidal (1925 - )
- You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), when asked to describe radio
- I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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