John Cleese (1939) actor from England
Defending the film Life of Brian on BBC chat show Friday Night Saturday Morning (9 November 1979)
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
John Cleese (1939) actor from England
Defending the film Life of Brian on BBC chat show Friday Night Saturday Morning (9 November 1979)
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Canada Club, London (21 November 1927), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 141.
1927
Context: Your country is a country for men from the North, the hardy virile races. Quality before quantity any day. Build up with the best. What does it matter if it is a hundred years, or two hundred years, or more, before your country is full? Keep the stock you have, and the men and women you have, and see that the coming generations are in no way inferior to them.
Jacque Fresco (1916–2017) American futurist and self-described social engineer
With the observable fact that scientific knowledge makes our lives better when applied with concern for human welfare and environmental protection, there is no question that science and technology can produce abundance so that no one has to go without... Hopes for divine intervention by mythical characters are delusions that cannot solve the problems of our modern world. The future of the world is our responsibility and it depends upon decisions we make today. We are our own salvation or damnation.
Source: Designing the Future (2007), p. 10
Virginia Woolf book Jacob's Room
Source: Jacob's Room (1922), Ch. 8
Context: The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. The streets of London have their map; but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?
Yusuf Qaradawi (1926) Egyptian imam
Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi Reacts to the Murder of Four Americans in Al-Fallujah: 'How could you punish an entire people because four corpses were mutilated?' http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/31.htm April 2004.
Jack White (1975) American musician and record producer
On why they recorded Elephant in two weeks <br class="br">Perry, Andrew (2004). "The White Stripes uncut" http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,13887,1349947,00.html Observer Music Monthly (accessed June 19, 2007). <br class="br">2010