Quotes of: John Keyword

Bromhead: Chard. One of my men - Hook - do you know him? Lieutenant John Chard: [preoccupied] No. Bromhead: In the hospital, malingering under arrest. He's a thief, a coward and an insubordinate barrack room lawyer. And you've given him a rifle! Lieu...

Zulu

Patrick Bateman: [faking a conversation on the phone] Now, John, you've to wear clothes in proportion to your physique. There are definite dos and don'ts, good buddy of wearing a bold striped shirt. A bold stripe shirt calls for solid colored or disc...

American Psycho

They (economists) must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

What is this thing? Did you make it?” “I am a chemist, aren’t I?” Laurence says. “You own a meth-lab,” Benjamin says. “That does not qualify you as a chemist.

The Devil's Breath

Je größerer Art die Maßnahmen werden, um so weniger kann man damit überraschen.

Die Kunst des Krieges & Vom Kriege (Meisterwerke der Strategie)

Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.

The Diviners

With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books

In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.

Beyond John Dann

Run. Flee. Fuck off. Vanish from my presence and take the foul stench of your sordid secret with you.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

Had the facial plumage been of a paler hue it would have looked like a pile of horse crap on a winter’s day.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.

Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders

The present times require the vigor and the activity of the prime of life; but I feel the increasing infirmities of age to such a degree, that I am conscious I cannot serve you to advantage.

Christopher Gadsden

What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the world. I want to sustain the vibrancy that makes it exciting to work here, that makes it exciting for visitors. The art remains central.

Thomas P. Campbell

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

John Adams

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

John Mayer - Battle Studies

It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

The Rommel Papers

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.

Matterhorn

No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.

A Plea For Captain John Brown

Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

Peter Pan

As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.

The Quest for Cosmic Justice

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

The Unity of Science