Selected Quotes

"Each great passion is the fruit of many fruitless years "

"Q: And what would he have done? A: He'd have cut him a hickory, sir. A hickory. He'd have flailed the living daylights out of her and then helped put lard on her welts and bought her a diamond brooch. That's what he'd have done, sir, and she'd have loved it. "

"If, for some reason your life functions ceased, my most precious one, I would collapse, I would draw the shades and I would live in the dark. I would never get out of my slar pad or clean myself. My fluids would coagulate, my cone would shrivel, and I would die, miserable and lonely. The stench would be great.  "

"As Witnesses we believe the end of the world is approaching and that only 144,000 people will be saved to reign.  I do not believe it will be that many. "

"I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. "

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. "

"Winston Smith: Look, I hate purity. Hate goodness. I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone corrupt. Julia: Well, I ought to suit you, then. I'm corrupt to the core. Winston Smith: Do you like doing this? I don't mean just me... Julia: I adore it. "

"Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space. "

"Older Joe: I don't want to talk about time travel because if we start talking about it then we're going to be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws. "

"Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment. "

"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. "

"I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes. "

"In reality, if you think about it, you go to heaven when you're born. "

"Security is mostly a superstition. ... Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. "

"We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. "

"All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there. "

"People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example. "

"My relationship with death remains the same -- I'm strongly against it. "

"Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters. "

"Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. "

"Never check an interesting fact. "

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. "

"I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you’re cheating. "

"Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error. "

"All the world is queer save thee and me, and even thou art a little queer. "