Colonel Oliver: [explaining why the world will not intervene] You're black. You're not even a nigger. You're an African.
Dwayne: [while Sheryl is crying he writes this on a piece of paper to Olive] Go Hug Mom
[Dwayne looks around van; writes frantically on notepad... ] Frank: [reading notepad] "Where's Olive?"... Sheryl: Oh!
Grandpa: Olive, Richard is an idiot. I like a woman with meat on her bones.
Frank: [as audience members boo Olive's performance] Where are they? I will *kill* those little fuckers!
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
That's what PGA Tour golf is all about. It's a partnership with the community to help people to raise money for charity and to do it using golf as a platform.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.
The idea that you earn things - that you earn respect, that you earn income, responsibility. the vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind.
My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.
People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost.
Appellant constituted a legitimate class of one, and this provides a basis for Congress's decision to proceed with dispatch with respect to his materials.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism.
The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society.
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
Remember, social progress only happens when those in society's privileged classes choose to give up their status.
My wife and I love to host wine and cheese parties. They are simple and elegant and you don't have to put a lot of effort and time into it.
Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.