“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Letter to Miss M. Betham Edwards (5 January 1912).
Discussion with reporters at the UN, September 21, 2007.<br><br> Situation room, CNN, 21 September 2007, 2007-09-28 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0609/21/sitroom.02.html, <br class="br">2007
“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
Henry James (1843–1916) American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
Letter to Miss M. Betham Edwards (5 January 1912).
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe http://books.google.com/books?id=dJMpQagbz_gC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA387#v=onepage&q&f=false by Walter Isaacson, p. 387 <br class="br">1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Ellen G. White book Christ's Object Lessons
Source: Christ's Object Lessons (1900), Ch. 1, p. 20
Context: Jesus desired to awaken inquiry. He sought to arouse the careless, and impress truth upon the heart. Parable teaching was popular, and commanded the respect and attention, not only of the Jews, but of the people of other nations. No more effective method of instruction could He have employed.
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law”
Brendan Behan (1923–1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 420
Context: I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Bobby Fischer (1943–2008) American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
Radio Interview, February 19 2005 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_31_2.MP3I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.Now chess is completely dead. It is all just memorization and prearrangement. It’s a terrible game now. Very uncreative. <br class="br">2000s
Mel Gibson (1956) American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter
"Gibson: I'm not anti-Semitic", Tom Tugend, Jerusalem Post, February 9, 2004
Yaron London (1940) Israeli journalist, actor and songwriter
Why Israel isn’t shocked by anti-Semites in White House (November 21, 2016)